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Article: U.S. urges China to clean up its act on human rights The United States will speak out even when it makes friends and allies uncomfortable
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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The other day Secretary of State Colin Powell said that relations
between the United States and China have never been better. This is a
major accomplishment for President Bush and his emissaries.
At the beginning of the Bush administration, our relations with
China were chilly indeed. In April 2001, a Chinese fighter plane
collided with a Navy EP-3 surveillance plane over international
waters and forced it to land. This illegal act and China's subsequent
refusal to allow us to repair that Navy airplane so it could fly home
created acute tensions between us.
Since that rocky beginning, Bush has patiently worked to mend,
deepen and expand areas of cooperation between the world's sole ...