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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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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 t...
