CAUGHT IN THE CROSS FIRE

RELATIONS WITH THE U.S. WORSEN WEEK BY WEEK, AND THE DETENTION OF A HUMAN-RIGHTS HERO ISN'T HELPING

AS HE WAS LEAVING ON ANOTHER risky mission to China last month, human-rights activist Harry Wu offered Sue Howell, the assistant who was accompanying him, some advice on how to survive a Chinese interrogation. "Play it like a game," he said. "They insist you give them something. You resist, then give a little. But you get in trouble if you give everything at once or if you refuse to cooperate." Wu must now follow his own counsel, since the Chinese arrested him on that trip. But his words might also be useful to the U.S., whose relations with China seem to...

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