U.S. urges China to pressure North Korea on rights
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The Bush administration's point  man for human rights in North Korea pressed China on Thursday  to put more pressure on North Korea to end human rights abuses.
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The Dalai Lama warned nations on  Tuesday not to try to contain China&#39;s economic and military  emergence, but urged countries like Australia to use their  trading clout to pressure Beijing on human rights.
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China urged Canada on Thursday to hand  over 44 North Korean asylum seekers who broke into the Canadian  embassy in Beijing, promising to deal with the men, women and  children in a humanitarian way.
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China on Thursday blasted the United States for trampling on Iraq's sovereignty, using its campaign against terrorism as an excuse to carry out torture and violate the rights of its citizens.
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BEIJING -- China renewed a diplomatic push to try to solve the North Korean nuclear crisis with top-level visits yesterday Pyongyang and Seoul.
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A senior U.S. envoy began an Asian tour   on Friday to press Washington's case that Pyongyang must be   brought to heel, as North Korea lashed out at Japan for   imposing sanctions over this week's barrage of missile tests.
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BEIJING, Jan. 17 -- China demanded Thursday that the United States do more to prevent Taiwan from holding a controversial pro-independence referendum, but a senior U.S. official said Washington has already done all it can to get the vote called off.
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China is calling on Canadian diplomats to hand over 44 people believed to be North Korean asylum seekers. The group stormed into the Canadian Embassy in the Chinese capital on Wednesday.
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The United States stressed on Thursday  that it opposes Taiwan plans to hold a referendum on U.N.  membership, while China urged Washington to help oppose the  vote that it calls a dangerous provocation.
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The United States, facing opposition to  proposed U.N. sanctions against North Korea for this week&#039;s  missile tests, said on Saturday it backed China&#039;s proposal for  informal talks to re-engage the reclusive state.
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China signalled to US Secretary of State Colin Powell it will press North Korea to return quickly to stalled talks on its nuclear weapons program, a senior State Department official said.
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China has said that while it is &amp;quot;gravely concerned&amp;quot; about the North Korea situation, a draft United Nations resolution urging sanctions over the regime&#039;s missile tests was an &amp;quot;overreaction.&amp;quot;
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U.S. President George W. Bush called on Friday for China to allow more freedoms ahead of the 2008 Olympics and denounced Myanmar's ruling junta for assaulting and detaining activists.
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China has told the United States it  will push for another round of six-way talks on the North  Korean nuclear crisis as soon as possible, saying it will be in  touch with Pyongyang and the other players.
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The U.S. and its allies urged North Korea to act on its pledge to start dismantling its nuclear program after frozen money that had been Pyongyang's main condition to disarm was on its way Friday to the communist nation's accounts.
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Calling it a matter of urgency, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday North Korea should resume participation in nuclear disarmament talks and set aside its concerns about new "hostile acts" by the United States against the communist government.
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The gesture comes as the Bush administration is weighing whether to sponsor a resolution criticizing China's human rights record at a U.N. meeting next month.