{"id":13676,"date":"2012-07-23T00:07:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T00:07:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-07-23T00:07:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T00:07:02","slug":"US-China-hold-two-days-of-human-rights-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=13676","title":{"rendered":"US, China hold two days of human rights talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United States and China opened two days of talks on human rights today, with Washington set to raise numerous issues including Tibet and the case of dissident Chen Guangcheng.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The talks, <strong>an annual event<\/strong>, were being led on the US side by Assistant Secretary Michael Posner, and on the Chinese side by top officials from Beijing&#8217;s foreign ministry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We consider that this is an integral part of all of the work we do to try to build a strong partnership and cooperation across the board with China,&#8221; State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Chen&#8217;s case and reported harassment of his family would also be among the topics discussed, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Chen was sentenced to more than four years in prison in 2006 after exposing abuses in China&#8217;s one-child policy and then placed under house arrest in the village of Shandong upon his release in September 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 40-year-old activist escaped from house arrest in April just as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was visiting the Communist country <\/strong>sparking a major diplomatic incident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chen was eventually allowed to leave for New York with his wife and two children<\/strong> arriving in the city on May 19, but has accused Chinese officials of making life hard for some of his family left behind.<\/p>\n<p>Being able to talk forthrightly about human rights in all of <strong>its aspects&#8221; 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