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Geithner, Clinton to visit Beijing as currency row rumbles

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More pressure.


Geithner, Clinton to visit Beijing as currency row rumbles

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner head to Beijing next month for high level talks as tensions build on a range of pressing issues, from China's currency to Iran, officials said.

The Treasury Department said the two top cabinet secretaries would hold a "strategic and economic" dialogue with Chinese leaders May 24-25, confirming dates for one of the biggest Sino-US meetings this year.

The sessions come as Washington and Beijing wrestle over key issues across the range of their relations.

Washington has stepped up pressure on Beijing to support another round of UN sanctions against Iran with Vice President Joe Biden predicting over the weekend that China would come around.

The United States also has moved gingerly to press Beijing to allow the yen to strengthen against the dollar amid increasingly bitter complaints in the US Congress of Chinese currency manipulation.

The talks also would be a forum for what US officials said would be a "candid" airing differences on human rights, the Internet and religious freedom.

State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said last week that the two sides would likely discuss "the broader topic of Internet freedom and the availability of information to Chinese citizens."

"We disagree with China as to what that represents," he said.

Google said in January that it would stop cooperating with China's censorship of the Internet after reporting cyberattacks against the accounts of the company and activists.

China rigorously filters the Internet to block access to sensitive topics such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on democracy protesters and the banned Falungong spiritual movement.

It will be Geithner's second trip to China in as many months, as he continues efforts to persuade China to let the yuan strengthen against the dollar.

Beijing's critics say the Chinese currency is undervalued by as much as 40 percent, making its exports artificially competitive.

Geithner has eschewed boisterous demands from Congress for US sanctions against China for currency manipulation, preferring quiet diplomacy.

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