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VAP97112304 -23 NOVEMBER 1997 - VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA: A Vancouver Police officer orders a protestor back behind the barricades across from the Hyatt Hotel where Chinese President Jiang Zemin is a guest speaker at a dinner hosted by Vancouver's Mayor Philip Owen, Nov. 23rd. Jiang Zemin who is in town for APEC'97, is being protested for the lack of human rights in his country. UPI/H.Ruckemann


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UPI Almanac for Saturday, March 14, 2009.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- For decades, the Davos economic summit in Switzerland has been the showcase for America's leadership of the globalized free market system, but not anymore: The prime ministers of Russia and China used this year's Davos forum to launch blistering attacks on the feckless economic policy of the United States that, they allege, brought the world to its current parlous state of economic crisis.
BEIJING, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Former Chinese Communist Party leader and Premier Hua Guofeng, who died Aug. 20 at age 87, was cremated Sunday at Beijing's Babaoshan cemetery.
BEIJING, July 3 (UPI) -- Shao Hua, who served as a major general in the People's Liberation Army of China, has died at the age of 69, state-run media said.
Walker's World: Bye-bye boomers
LONDON, May 5 (UPI) -- The victory of Boris Johnson in London's mayoral election represents the emergence of a new generation of politicians into the struggle for power. The baby boomers are starting the long, sad slide into senescence. The generation X-ers are on the march.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 23 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is calling on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors not to use an Olympic torch visit to condemn Chinese rule of Tibet.
WASHINGTON, March 17 (UPI) -- Tibet is no aberration; the world's worst human-rights offenders all find a friend in China.
UPI Almanac for Friday, March 14, 2008.
HONG KONG, March 7 (UPI) -- China is not prepared to handle a large-scale external crisis -- particularly in the Taiwan Strait -- it can be concluded after assessing the nation's hardware, including ammunition supplies and fuel reserves, as well as the quality of its military personnel.
BEIJING, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao Monday won a new mandate to lead the country for five more years from the newly elected Communist Party’s 17th Central Committee.
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