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Friday, 21 January 2011 - U.S. lawmakers press China's Hu on N.Korea, rights
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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 U.S. lawmakers press China's Hu on N.Korea, rights Reuters - 1 hour 58 minutes ago Send IM Story Print By Thomas Ferraro and Caren Bohan WASHINGTON - U.S. lawmakers pressed Chinese President Hu Jintao to get tough on North Korea and improve human rights on Thursday but trod more softly on the currency dispute that is a major irritant between the world's top two economies. Hu was urged by President Barack Obama on Wednesday to let the value of China's currency rise but members of Congress zeroed in on human rights and trade to underscore the huge gaps between Beijing and Washington. "Chinese leaders have a responsibility to do better and the United States has a responsibility to hold them to account," John Boehner, the new Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, said after meeting Hu with other lawmakers. Analysts have called Hu's visit to Washington the most significant by a Chinese leader in 30 years given China's growing military and diplomatic clout. But it comes at a time of strains over everything from economic policy and climate change to the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran. Lawmakers said they urged Hu to take a stronger line on North Korea, hoping to use Beijing's influence over Pyongyang to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula and resume aid-for-disarmament talks. After a series of business deals were announced this week, Hu continued his courtship of U.S. companies with a speech describing the benefits of cooperation before he was due to travel to Chicago on Thursday afternoon. More deals are expected to be announced there. Underlining China's importance to the global economy, data on Thursday showed its annual growth quickened in the fourth quarter of last year to 9.8 percent, defying expectations of a slowdown. "SUBSTANTIALLY UNDERVALUED" As U.S. voter anger simmers with unemployment riding above 9 percent, lawmakers have threatened new tariffs to punish Beijing for policies that critics say undervalue the yuan by up to 40 percent against the dollar. The policies make China's exports artificially cheap, the critics charge, and contribute to a trade gap that Washington puts at $270 billion . While House lawmakers skipped the currency question, which has been raised more frequently in the past by Democrats than Republicans, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid did raise it in his meeting with Hu, an aide said. And the U.S. Treasury kept up the pressure with Assistant Treasury Secretary Charles Collyns saying Beijing has kept the yuan "substantially undervalued. Obama had spoken forcefully about the yuan in a joint news conference with Hu on Wednesday but the comments by Collyns were the sharpest direct criticism of China's currency policies during Hu's visit. Rick Larsen, the Democratic co-chairman of the bipartisan U.S.-China Working Group in the House, said China must get serious about improving U.S. access to its huge domestic market and allowing the yuan to rise. "This puts U.S. companies at a disadvantage and unfairly tilts the playing field towards domestic Chinese companies," he said in a statement on Thursday. State media in China lapped up the pomp of the visit but largely avoided mention of the rare news conference by the two presidents, where Hu was peppered with questions about the yuan and human rights. Beijing residents said BBC and CNN broadcasts of the summit went blank when questions moved to human rights and anti-Chinese protesters, although access to foreign news channels is limited to upscale hotels and apartment complexes. Newspapers splashed photos of Hu with Obama across their front pages, with headlines touting a "new chapter in relations" after China agreed to buy $45 billion worth of U.S. goods in deals that seemed aimed at quelling anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States. Hu told the U.S.-China Business Council on Thursday that cheap Chinese exports had saved American consumers $600 billion over the past decade and described hopes for a richer partnership -- while avoiding mention of human rights or the currency issue. "Our two countries have never enjoyed such broad common interests and shouldered such broad common responsibilities as they do today," Hu said, adding that China "will unwaveringly take the path of peaceful development." YUAN NOT TO BLAME Neither Boehner nor Reid attended Wednesday's White House dinner for Hu, labelled "a dictator" by the Senate majority leader in a television interview this week. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell skipped the Hu visit entirely. Senator John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, and former Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi led the effort to put pressure on Hu over human rights in their meetings, congressional aides said, illustrating the bipartisan nature of concern over China's record. Small groups of rights activists continued to demonstrate near Hu's Washington hotel on Thursday while a larger number of China supporters gathered nearby to shout counter-slogans. Democratic Representative Howard Berman said it was frustrating that issues such as currency could not be covered in Thursday's meeting between House members and Hu. "Many of us never got a chance to raise issues because of the limited time," he said. "Life is full of frustrations." In the past week, China's central bank has repeatedly set the daily mid-point for the yuan at record highs in keeping with a policy of strengthening the currency during important diplomatic events. But China has thus far resisted demands for faster appreciation of the yuan. Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai said Beijing's position on the exchange rate "has not substantially changed" while Commerce Minister Chen Deming said China wanted to resolve the trade imbalance through talks and the value of the yuan was not to blame, the official Xinhua news agency said. Analysts said the U.S.-China business pacts agreed during the visit looked impressive but some agreements may take years to materialise and others were closer to non-binding draft deals that still require further negotiations -- leaving the real results of the visit unclear. Recommend Send IM Story Print Related Articles S. 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