Clinton: "Beijing is not a threat" but "continued pressure on rights"

NEW YORK - A few days from the meeting in Washington with Chinese leader Hu Jintao, planned for January 19, Hillary Clinton reiterated the strengths of the relationship between the United States and Beijing. He did it in a speech at the State Department, during which he said that a prosperous China is "good for the U.S." as well as the reverse is not true.

For these reasons, Clinton reiterated during his visit, the United States intends to pursue "a comprehensive report, positive and cooperative." This will not prevent the U.S., however, continue to press China on human rights, even to secure the release of Nobel Peace Prize Liu Xiaobo. The emergence of China is still a threat to the interests of the U.S.

and Washington is not to limit its economic growth, said in Washington the U.S. secretary of state. To deny the existence of "G2", an entity formed by the United States and China often quoted by the press in recent weeks. "But relations between Washington and Beijing, the capital of the two largest economic powers," are particularly important, "Clinton said.

That is not to discuss the U.S. pressure against Chinese censorship on the Internet. It 's a year ago, the controversy that led to the U.S. Secretary of State to intervene after the threat of Google to close in China, five years after agreeing to undergo a degree of censorship in exchange for permission to work in the huge emerging market, denouncing to have suffered "very sophisticated and targeted attacks" of software piracy from China.

The attacks were aimed at entry in the account of Chinese human rights activists. The same day the complaint against Google, on January 12 last year, Hillary Clinton intervened in Beijing asking for explanations about attacks on Google as "very worrying". Later, Google officials were called to the State Department to detail the nature of the attacks suffered.

In the days before the intervention of Hillary Clinton, China lowered the tone of the controversy. In a statement released by the New China, the Deputy Foreign Minister He Yafei called the relationship between the two countries as "basically stable" in the first year of the government of President Barack Obama.

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