U.S. Relations With the People's Republic of China (2008)

The White House

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 18, 2008

Press Briefing by Tony Fratto

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room

1:35 P.M. EDT

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Q: Okay. And Japan now says that the situation in Tibet is officially an international issue. Do you agree with that?

MR. FRATTO: That the situation in Tibet is an international -- I don't think we try to characterize it as a national issue or an international issue. I don't think that's the point of it. The point of it is that there are lots of places in the world where we have an interest in the human rights of the citizens who live there, and we express our interest and our concern in all of those places and we want to see the conditions improve.

Did you finish? (Laughter.) Let me take just that one last question on Korea.

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