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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Clinton presses China on rights before visit AFP - Saturday, January 15 Send IM Story Print WASHINGTON (AFP) - – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China to free dissidents and improve treatment of minorities, pledging not to shy away from disagreements when President Hu Jintao pays a state visit. In a wide-ranging speech Friday days before Hu was due in Washington, Clinton said the Pacific powers had reached a "critical juncture" in relations and said the United States had no interest in containing China's rise. Clinton was unusually forthright in her call for human rights, urging China to free dissidents including Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo who is serving an 11-year prison sentence after authoring a petition for political reform. "A vibrant civil society would help address some of China's most pressing issues, from food safety to pollution to education to health care," Clinton said. "The longer China represses freedoms, the longer it will miss out on these opportunities and the longer that Liu Xiaobo's empty chair in Oslo will remain a symbol of a great nation's unrealized potential and unfulfilled promise." China has tried to block news at home of Liu's Nobel Peace Prize and urged a boycott of last month's ceremony in Oslo, where where the activist writer was represented by a poignant empty chair. "Many in China resent or reject our advocacy of human rights as an intrusion on their sovereignty," Clinton acknowledged. "But as a founding member of the United Nations, China has committed to respecting the rights of all its citizens. These are universal rights that are recognized by the international community," she said. Clinton also raised the cases of Gao Zhisheng, a human rights lawyer who has not been heard from since April, and Chen Guangcheng, a blind activist jailed after recounting abuses in the one-child policy. Clinton's remarks came after criticism by human rights groups over President Barack Obama's embrace of China. Obama will welcome Hu on Wednesday at the White House with the full pomp of a gun salute and dinner, unlike former president George W. Bush who reserved state visits for leaders of democracies. Officials said Obama and Clinton will also hold an unusual intimate dinner with Hu on Tuesday in the Old Family Dining Room in the White House residence. Elisa Massimino, president of Human Rights First, believed Clinton's speech marked a change for the administration by making an argument for human rights in China instead of saying simply that the countries would agree to disagree. "I think this speech has the possibility of changing the dynamic, that it would not be viewed as getting human rights out of the way but as laying down a marker," she said. Clinton came under fire at home early in her tenure when she said human rights would not "interfere" with cooperation between the United States and China on issues such as reviving the global economy and fighting climate change. She took a different tone on Friday, saying that the Pacific powers needed to be "honest about their differences." Clinton was also critical of China's treatment of North Korea, particularly its refusal to condemn its ally over last year's sinking of South Korea's Cheonan vessel. "We warned China that failure to respond clearly to the sinking of a South Korean military vessel would embolden North Korea to continue on a dangerous course," she said. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, addressing reporters on Friday, said that the United States would also "talk very openly and candidly about our concerns and our objectives in the Chinese market." But Clinton also reiterated the Obama administration's view that cooperation was vital, saying that "this is not a relationship that fits neatly into black-and-white categories like friend or rival." "We are two complex nations with profoundly different political systems and outlooks. But we are both deeply invested in the current order, and we both have much more to gain from cooperation than from conflict," she said. Her view was echoed in Beijing by Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai who was quoted by state media as calling for the United States and China to "join hands" to solve global problems. 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