US Lawmakers, Chinese Dissidents Ask Trump to Pressure Beijing on Rights

Some U.S. lawmakers are urging President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration to recalibrate U.S.-China relations with a harder line on human rights. "It is increasingly clear that there is direct link between China's domestic human-rights problems and the security and prosperity of the United States," Congressman Chris Smith said at a hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC). Smith, a committee co-chairman, spoke on Wednesday, ahead...

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