Democracy activists and Falun Gong practitioners demonstrate near the Washington Monument in Washington in support of people who have quit the Chinese Communist Party Friday, July 18, 2008. The Olympic games begin in Beijing on Aug. 8. But already the competition between anti-China activists and Chinese authorities to sway public opinion in the United States is heating up _ transforming the run-up to the global sports gathering into a public relations marathon where China's national pride is pitted against claims that Beijing abuses its citizens and unquestioningly supports nefarious governments. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) By FOSTER KLUG WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an air-conditioned room in the Chinese Embassy, a vice minister from Beijing chastises Americans for their "very limited" understanding of violent anti-government protests...
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