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China's Shipeng Wang is helped off the court after suffering a hand injury playing against Australia during the London International Basketball Invitational, a test event at the Basketball arena at the Olympic Park in east London Tuesday, Aug. , 16, 2011. The London 2012 Olympic organising committee are holding a series of test events in the run up to the games.

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China's Vice Premier Li Keqiang addresses the media upon his arrival at Hong Kong's international airport on August 16, 2011. Li, the expected successor to Prime Minister Wen Jiabao as head of China's day-to-day administration, is making a three-day visit to Hong Kong with plans to speak about economic ties with the semi-autonomous territory.

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A group of young Chinese women take part in an interview process to be airline flight attendants for a Chinese airline company, in Hefei, in central China's Anhui province on August 16 , 2011. China aims to expand its aircraft fleet to more than 4,500 planes by 2015 from over 2,600 at present and increase its number of commercial airports to 220 from the current 175, as it expands its fleet to meet growing demand.

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An attendant tidies up a presidential suite at a luxury hotel under construction inside the decommissioned former Soviet aircraft carrier "Kiev" at Bagua beach, on the outskirts of northern China's Tianjin, August 16, 2011. The China's first aircraft carrier luxury hotel, occupying an area of about 6,000 square metres, has entered the stage of internal decoration and will be opened this year inside the 273 metre-long and 53 metre-wide Kiev Aircraft Carrier, which was sold to a Chinese company in 1996 as a part of a military theme park since 2004.

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A police officer scans the tarmac ahead of the arrival by China's Vice Premier Li Keqiang at Hong Kong's international airport on August 16, 2011. Li, the expected successor to Prime Minister Wen Jiabao as head of China's day-to-day administration, is making a three-day visit to Hong Kong with plans to speak about economic ties with the semi-autonomous territory.

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A lone protester is confronted by police as he attempts to voice his point to China's Vice Premier Li Keqiang (not pictured) outside the hotel where the latter is staying during his visit to Hong Kong on August 16, 2011. Li, the expected successor to Prime Minister Wen Jiabao as head of China's day-to-day administration, is making a three-day visit to Hong Kong with plans to speak about economic ties with the semi-autonomous territory.

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Israeli President Shimon Peres (C) welcomes with China's General Chen Bingde, chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army as Israeli chief of staff Lt. General Benjamin 'Benny' Gantz (R) stands next to them on August 16, 2011 at the presidential compound in Jerusalem.

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Demonstrators demanding the release of Nobal Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and to redress miscarriage of justice of June 4th pro-decmoracy movement in 1989, confront police during a protest in Hong Kong where Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang is on visit August 16, 2011. Li arrived in Hong Kong on Tuesday for a three-day visit to showcase Beijing's support and the importance of the Special Administrative Region as an international finance centre.

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Malaysian Chinese perform prayers in front of the giant paper statue of the Chinese deity "Da Shi Ye" or "Guardian God of Ghosts" as it burns during the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival in Bukit Mertajam,Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011. The Hungry Ghost Festival is celebrated during the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar, when prayers are offered to the dead and offerings of food and paper-made models of items such as televisions, refrigerators and sport cars are burnt to appease the wandering spirits. It is believed that the gates of hell are opened during the month and the dead ancestors return to visit their relatives.

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A bus carrying a tour group from Taiwan crashed into a roadside ditch after colliding with a car on an expressway in Northeast China's Jilin province, killing four and injuring 17, on Monday afternoon. All the passengers killed, a man and three women, were tourists from Taiwan. The injured passengers are being treated at hospitals in Changchun, capital of Jilin province.

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Long March-4B rocket carrying orbiter Haiyang-2 lifts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, Aug. 16, 2011. The satellite is for the supervision and survey of maritime environment, an important measure for prevention and reduction of maritime disasters. [Xinhua/Yin Bogu]

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n this photo provided by ZhaoHui Tang, former Washington Gov. Gary Locke, who is the first Chinese-American ambassador to China, orders coffee at Seattle Tacoma International Airport on Aug. 12, 2011. ZhaoHui Tang, a businessman who snapped a photo of Locke carrying his own backpack and ordering his own coffee at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport says he’s surprised by the big, admiring response the picture generated among Chinese citizens not used to such frugality. (AP Photo/ZhaoHui Tang )

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SEATTLE (AP) — A photo of the new U.S. ambassador to China carrying his own backpack and ordering his own coffee at an airport has charmed Chinese citizens not used to such frugality from their officials.

ZhaoHui Tang, a businessman from Bellevue, Washington, snapped the photo Friday on his iPhone when he spotted Gary Locke at the counter of an airport Starbucks. Locke is the first Chinese-American ambassador to China and a former governor of Washington state.

Tang uploaded the photo to the Chinese social media network Sina Weibo because he thought it was cool to run into the new ambassador at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

He didn't expect it to generate 40,000 reposts and thousands of comments.

"This is something unbelievable in China," said Tang, a Chinese-American citizen. "Even for low-ranking officials, we don't do things for ourselves. Someone goes to buy the coffee for them. Someone carries their bags for them."

Locke tried to use a coupon or voucher for the coffee, but the barista rejected it, Tang said. The ambassador then paid with a credit card, he said.

Tang, chief executive of an Internet advertising firm called adSage, was flying from Seattle to Silicon Valley. Locke was leaving for China from the next gate over.

Tang introduced himself to Locke when he took the picture and wished him luck in the new job.

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BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 17: A girl presents U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (C) with flowers as Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (2L) looks on upon BIden's arrival on Air Force Two at the Beijing Capital International Airport on August 17, 2011 in Beijing, China. Vice President Joe Biden, a veteran foreign policy hand during his 36-year Senate career, arrived for a five-day visit in China under a cloud of criticism over the U.S. debt, as he seeks to build a rapport with Xi Jinping, the man expected to be the rising Asian power's next leader. He will later visit emerging U.S. partner Mongolia and longstanding ally Japan.

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China's Vice Premier Li Keqiang waves to the floor traders in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011. Li, who is widely expected to be China's next premier, announced a raft of measures to boost the service sector and financial industry, both pillars of Hong Kong's economy.

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China's Politburo Standing Committee Member Zhou Yongkang shakes hand with Nepal's caretaker Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal (R) during their meeting at the Prime Minister's Office at Singha Durbar in Kathmandu August 17, 2011. Zhou, leading a high-level Chinese delegation on a three-day visit, will hold talks on economic cooperation and sign at least six agreements with Nepali authorities on loan and economic cooperation, according to local media.

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Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang smiles during a welcoming dinner at a hotel in Hong Kong August 17, 2011. Bearing gifts for the people of Hong Kong, the man tipped to be China's next premier is wooing the southern financial boomtown this week in a political warm-up lap to assuming power from popular Premier Wen Jiabao.

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BERLIN, GERMANY - AUGUST 17: Chinese dissident writer Liao Yiwu is greeted by German writer Herta Mueller at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele during the Berlin International Literature Festival on August 17, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Liao, who fled China after spending years in prison, read from his new book “A Song and A Hundred Songs,” in which he recounts his prison experiences, including being tortured by Chinese prison authorities.

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Police officers guard a barricade during a demonstration by protesters demanding the release of Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo during Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang's visit in Hong Kong August 17, 2011.

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Nurses carry 30-day-old quadruplets, two baby girls and two baby boys, as they pose for a photo at a hospital in Lianyungang, in east China's Jiangsu province on August 17 , 2011. Authorities in China's most populous province have asked Beijing to ease the one-child policy, a government official said on August 16, amid growing concerns over gender imbalances and an ageing population.

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Artists perform a Chinese opera gets during the Hungry Ghost festival in Malaysia's northern town of Bukit Mertajam on August 16, 2011. According to the traditional annual Chinese festival the spirits of the departed walk the earth at this time of year with practitioners leaving out food to placate the hungry souls. The festival is celebrated during the seventh lunar month of the Chinese calendar among communities in southern China, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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Washington Nationals starting pitcher Chien-Ming Wang, from Taiwan, throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011 in Washington.

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Models display the latest smart phone by Taiwan's leading smartphone maker HTC, the HTC Evo 3D, during a press conference in Taipei on August 17, 2011. Taiwan's leading smartphone maker HTC launched its first 3D cellphone onto the local market, picking what a local telecom operator said was an opportune time ahead of the iPhone 5.

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A boy stands in front of New Hope School, an unlicensed migrant children’s school in Haidian district, which was demolished last week. Photo: CFP

If there is such a thing as Tiger Mom in China, Fang Lian is surely one as she seems ready to pounce.

Her eyebrows knit together and she's furious but not because her child has been inattentive at piano lessons. She's upset with the Beijing municipal government which is forcing her son's school to close.

"Why would they shut down this school?" said the 42-year-old mother from Bengbu, Anhui Province, who has sold vegetables in Beijing for a decade but has no claim to permanent residency status.

"Where am I supposed to send my kid? Don't they care about the education of our children?" said the bewildered mother who has been through this once before with terrible results.

Her 12-year-old son, Wang Huichen, along with some 500 other children of migrant workers who live and work in the capital, attended Yuhong School, a privately-run elementary school near the South Fifth Ring Road in Daxing district of Beijing.

Founded in 1998, Yuhong is one of more than 130 unlicensed schools for migrant children that operate outside Beijing's public education system. In yet another citywide sweep that began in May at least a dozen of the privately-run schools for migrantchildren have been ordered to close. Some have already been demolished.

40,000 displaced students

With the fall semester about to start, where the 40,000 displaced students will attend school remains an unanswered question for many.

In northern Haidian district, what used to be a school for 1,400 migrant children is now a pile of rubble. Hongxing School, which was established 12 years ago, was forcibly demolished last week. Desks, chairs and even electric fans and heaters have been buried under the ruins. At least two other schools have been shut down in the past week.

Many parents aren't yet aware their children's school won't open for the new semester. "How can they demolish it just like that?" said a father from Shanxi Province whose 12-year-old daughter attends the school. He's made four attempts to register his daughter in a public school.

Around the corner from the demolished school the local government has set up an office to register the students in public schools, but fewer than 100 have so far qualified. The migrant parents are required to produce a temporary resident's permit, employment certificate, proof of a residence in Beijing, and proof that their child doesn't have a guardian in their hometown.

In Chaoyang district, at least nine schools have been ordered shut down. The district government dispatched security guards and city management officers known as "chengguan" to guard the doors of each of the schools. The parents of the 6,000 students who attend the schools were told they could send their children to another school but it sits in the middle of a demolished village more than five kilometers away.

On Monday, about 300 agitated parents managed to get their kids into Dongba Shiyan School which started the new semester earlier than most. It had been ordered to shut down in July and was guarded by security guards. The school's electricity and water had been cut off a week ago.

"The guards tried to stop the parents but they couldn't. We still have about 300 kids coming," said Principal Wan Tianbing, who founded the school in 2003 and had 1,300 students last semester. Wan borrowed a gas generator to provide electricity for the students returning this week.

Millions spent on renovations

In the southern Daxing district, the principals of both Yuhong and Tianyuan schools each invested over 1.5 million yuan to upgrade school buildings as required by local education authorities last year.

Still the local government issued a closure notice last May because the schools were determined to be illegal or posed safety and health risks. The schools are still defying the order, demanding the kids be properly transferred first.

"We did everything they asked us to do, and they are still shutting us down. It doesn't make any sense," said Zhang Mingrui, principal of Tianyuan School.

Some principals say the city plans to shut down all illegal schools for migrant children by the end of this year or early next and local governments are now tightening the noose.

The Beijing Municipal Commission of Education admitted at a press conference on Tuesday that it plans to close illegal schools but promised the students will not go without an education.

Illegal schools opened years ago

There are an estimated 180 privately operated elementary schools for migrant children but only 50 are licensed. Most of the schools, including kindergartens, have been operating for many years and are frequently pressured by authorities who threaten to shut them down.

The leaders of the migrant schools say the city's policies are often confusing and inconsistent. In 2006 the city also launched a major crackdown on unlicensed schools and promised to transfer all kids to the public system. That plan failed as there were not enough places in the public schools to accommodate all the kids.

400,000 migrant children in Beijing

There are over 400,000 migrant children in Beijing and over 70 percent currently attend public schools, according to official statistics. The authorities say they intend to register 80 percent of migrant children in public schools over the next couple of years.

If that happens it would add an additional 40,000 students to Beijing public schools which are already operating at fullcapacity.

"They find all kinds of excuses, they just don't want to accept our kids," said Gong Weiqi, 39, from Shanxi Province. His 9-year old son attended Lüyuan School in Haidian, which was shut down last week.

The children of Beijing's migrant workers also face other social hurdles if they're lucky enough to get admitted into the city's public school system, "Even if he gets in, how is my boy going to fit in with city kids?" said Fang Lian. "They don't even dress the
same."

Forcing migrants to leave Beijing

"It's the government's attempt at getting rid of the migrant population," said Tian Kun, a Beijing-lawyer and advocate for the rights of migrant children.

"They are targeting the kids and hoping the parents will just leave the capital."

The latest population census show Beijing has over 19 million residents and about one third are from other provinces and regions. They are being blamed for worsening traffic congestion and rising housing prices. The city has issued regulations making it harder for non Beijing permanent residents to buy a house and a car.

Many migrants have spent decades building a life in Beijing after leaving their countryside hometowns that couldn't support them and offered few opportunities for their children.

"We have a stable life here, we can't go back and start over again," said Gong the father of a 9-year-old. He and his wife have lived in Beijing for five years and own a barber shop in Haidian. They earn a decent wage of about 7,000 yuan a month.

"The closing of the schools is going to cause kids to drop out of school or force them back to their hometown without their parents," said Principal Zhang Mingrui.

An estimated 58 million children have been left in rural areas while their parents work in cities, according to a report issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs in June.

Won't let it happen to her son

Tiger Mom Fang Lian said she won't repeat the same mistake twice. When her daughter couldn't get into a school in Beijing she had to send her back to her hometown in Anhui despite the girl's protest.

The daughter's ailing grandparents were unable to care for the girl and she soon quit her rural school and went to work inGuangdong Province. She moved in with a boy and was pregnant at 18.

Fang has disowned her daughter. "I'm not going to let the same thing happen to my son," said the protective mother.

"They shut us down, but what are they going to do with the kids? They don't have a clue how to solve the education issue," said Xie Zhenqing, principal of Hongxiong School which was forcibly demolished.

Many experts agree the government hasn't fully realized that there's the need for schools for migrant children and forcing them to shut down is only creating a larger problem. "The parents voluntarily send their kids to such schools because they don't have better options," said Jia Xijin, a professor of public policy at Tsinghua University.

Jia said the government has made a good gesture offering to include more kids in Beijing's public schools. "But clearly this hasn't happened and that's why there's a demand for these schools," she said.

Fang, the determined, anxious mother is feeling backed into a corner as she worries about her family's future in Beijing.

"Unless the policy says all out-of-towners must leave Beijing, it's just not fair. Do we deserve to starve to death?" she asked.

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An 11-year-old Tibetan girl saved a young bharal (or Himalayan blue sheep) after it was stranded from its flock in Nangqen county, Qinghai province. She plans to take care of it until it grows up.

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Strict campaign to rectify sex imbalance
Updated: 2011-08-17 08:12
By Shan Juan (China Daily)

BEIJING - As China's population becomes more dominated by males, authorities have begun a national campaign to crack down on procedures used to determine a fetus' sex for anything other than medical purposes and abortions performed because a fetus is of a certain sex.

The campaign is being undertaken by the National Population and Family Planning Commission, the Ministry of Health, the State Food and Drug Administration, the Ministry of Public Security and other government agencies. It will last until March 2012 on the mainland, Li Bin, minister of the family planning commission, said at a national teleconference on Tuesday.

The campaign will give the public a sense of the importance of having a balance between the numbers of males and females in the population. It will also severely punish those who help to determine the sex of a fetus for something other than a medical purpose or to perform sex-selective abortions, and will ensure that more is done to monitor for those acts.

"Illegal fetal sex testing and sex-selective abortions are the direct causes of the long-term problem of a serious skewing in the sex ratio in the mainland, which arises from a deeply rooted tradition that favors boys," she said.

"If the trend in the ratio imbalance continues without something to intervene, it will put at risk the equality of the sexes, the development of girls, the lawful interests and rights of women and the nation's long-term development."

Liu Qian, vice-minister of health, pledged to make sure health institutions are better supervised, warning that "those caught taking part in such practices will be seriously punished or may even face criminal charges".

Doctors who violate the ban will be stripped of their licenses or otherwise punished and medical institutions found to be taking part in the practices will be subject to harsh punishments, Liu said.

In 2010, China's sex ratio among newborn babies on the mainland was 118.08 males for every 100 females, the greatest disparity found in the world.

That came after a year in which the ratio had stood at 119.45 and marked the first decrease in the ratio to occur since 2006, when the Ministry of Health began to formally prohibit hospitals throughout the mainland from testing the sexes of fetuses and performing sex-selective abortions for anything other than medical needs.

Despite the slight improvement, Li said the sex ratio, particularly among babies on the mainland, is still concerning.

In other countries, between 103 and 107 males are usually born for every 100 females, according to Yuan Xin, a professor in the Tianjin-based Nankai University's population and development institute.

He said the campaign will not make things right on its own.

"It mainly targets the measures that lead to a sex ratio imbalance, which is also associated with culture, tradition and socioeconomic factors," he said.

He said it will take a long time to rectify the imbalance, which first appeared on the mainland in the early 1980s.

In 1982, China recorded for the first time an imbalance in the sex ratio among newborns in the country. It became worse during the 1990s and peaked in 2004, when 121 males were born for every 100 females, according to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics.

As a result, China was home in 2010 to about 30 million more males under the age of 30 than females in the same group.

"They will have a hard time finding a wife," Yuan said.

Xinhua contributed to this story.

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30 million more males than females under age 30 is a huge number.

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Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (R) sits beside Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang (2nd R) and University of Hong Kong Vice-Chancellor Tsui Lap-chee (L) during the centenary ceremony of the University of Hong Kong August 18, 2011. Bearing gifts for the people of Hong Kong, Li, the man tipped to be China's next premier, is wooing the southern financial boomtown this week in a political warm-up lap to assuming power from popular Premier Wen Jiabao.

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Macau tycoon Stanley Ho (L), accompanied by his daughter Pansy, shakes hands with Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing (R) during the centenary ceremony of the University of Hong Kong August 18, 2011. Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang also attended the ceremony as part of his visit to Hong Kong.

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BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 18: U.S.Vice President Joe Biden (L) shakes hands with NPC Chairman Wu Bangguo (R) inside the Great Hall of the People on August 18, 2011 in Beijing, China. Biden will visit China, Mongolia and Japan from August 17-25.

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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (R) and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden listen to the U.S. national anthem during a welcoming ceremony inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing August 18, 2011.

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (centre R) smiles during a stop at a local restaurant for lunch with his granddaughter Naomi Biden (in pink) and his daughter-in-law Kathleen Biden (in white) in Beijing August 18, 2011.

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BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 18: Gary Locke, U.S. ambassador to China attends a bilateral meeting with NPC Chairman Wu Bangguo inside the Great Hall of the People on August 18, 2011 in Beijing, China. Biden will visit China, Mongolia and Japan from August 17-25.

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Protestors are confronted and detained by police officers during a protest against China's Vice Premier Li Keqiang near the new government headquarters where Li attended its completion ceremony in Hong Kong Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. Li, who is widely expected to become China's next premier, announced measures to boost Hong Kong's economy in a show of support for the Chinese territory's government as it struggles with public discontent over surging property prices and growing inequality.

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Power lines run past a housing estate in the Chaoyang District of Beijing on August 18, 2011. China said recently it had hooked its first so-called 'fourth generation' nuclear reactor to the grid, a breakthrough that could eventually reduce its reliance on uranium imports The experimental fast-neutron reactor is the result of more than 20 years of research and could also help minimise radioactive waste from nuclear energy.

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A boy sleeps during an afternoon break at a kindergarten for children of migrant workers, on the outskirts of Beijing. China has shut down 24 schools for the children of migrant workers in Beijing forcing more than 14,000 students to drop out, state media said, sparking anger among parents who say they face discrimination.

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Miami Heat's basketball player LeBron James, left and Chinese runner Liu Xiang, right, take part in a promotional event in Shanghai, China, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011.

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Vice President Joe Biden, known for his public-speaking stamina as well as for off-the-cuff comments that have landed him in trouble, sparked a brawl last night between the press and Chinese officials during a long-running speech.

During a meeting with Chinese Vice President Xi Jingping Thursday in China, Biden followed up on Xi's remarks by giving his own speech. And as Biden delivered his stem-winder, the White House pool reports that a "larger Chinese official" attempted to force the reporters out of the room, causing a near brawl.

"Stern shooing turned into forceful shoving," pool reporter Michael Memoli later wrote for the Los Angeles Times. "As reporters tried to stand their ground, Chinese officials locked arms and pushed forward in a show of overwhelming force."

"Officials said Biden was going on too long, though he at that point had not spoken for more than 5-6 minutes, including the consecutive translation," according to the pool report.

Reporters had difficulty hearing the speech due to the "fisticuffs" as Memoli described it, and gave up when it was clear Biden was finishing up.

Chinese officials attempted to clear the room early at a second event Thursday, though the pool report for that gathering doesn't indicate that any altercation broke out.

Apparently, reporters had been warned of potentially over-aggressive behavior from their Chinese hosts, but Memoli noted that reporters and staff said they had never witnessed that level of "aggressive force" at such an event.

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That's a whole lot of "Hot Dogs"..and not nearly enough buns!

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BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 19: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People on August 19, 2011 in Beijing, China. The Vice President is on a four-day visit to China during which he is focusing on discussions over concerns about the global economy and the world stock markets.

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, waves with his granddaughter Naomi Biden, center, and U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke, right, as they walk out from the Air Force Two upon arrival at the airport in Chengdu, China, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011.

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US Vice President Joe Biden (R) is presented with flowers as he arrives at the airport in Chengdu August 20, 2011. Biden witnessed at first hand China's economic awakening on August 20 with a visit to the thriving manufacturing hub of Chengdu.

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BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 19: U.S. ambassador to China Gary Locke shakes hands with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) during their meeting at the Zhongnanhai leaders compound on 19 August 2011 in Beijing, China.

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Colorful lanterns hang on sale at a store inside the Panjiayuan market, a popular spot for tourists and local buyers, in Beijing on August 20, 2011. Spurred on by state media which have let rip at the 'debt-riddled' United States, the Chinese have listened with wide-eyed amazement to tales of American people living well beyond their means. The US credit crisis has brought to light a fundamental difference between thrifty consumers in China -- the largest foreign holder of US debt -- and their credit-loving US counterparts.

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Chinese shoppers walk past a stall selling a painting of 'two laughing Chinese men' in front of the Statue of Liberty, at the Panjiayuan market in Beijing on August 20, 2011. China's prime minister Wen Jiabao expressed confidence in the US economy as he held talks with visiting US Vice President Joe Biden after a historic downgrade of the United States' top-notch credit rating. China is the largest foreign holder of US debt, and Biden has used his first official visit to the Asian nation since becoming vice president to reassure the country's leaders their investment remains safe.

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Artist Zeng Anting, who recreates photo images on stone, at work outside his stall at the Panjiayuan market, a popular spot for tourists and local buyers, in Beijing on August 20, 2011.

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Georgetown players give basketball tips to young Chinese players during a training camp held in Shanghai, China, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. Georgetown coach John Thompson III said he has made peace with the coach of the Chinese basketball team over the bench-clearing player brawl and denies the incident carried any political connotations

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NASEBY, NEW ZEALAND - AUGUST 20: Liu Sijia of China inspects the head during the Curling Round Robin match between China and Latvia on day eight of the Winter Games NZ at Maniototo International Curling Rink on August 20, 2011 in Naseby, New Zealand.

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HUAIBEI, CHINA - AUGUST 19: Investors watch the computers at a stock exchange hall on August 19, 2011 in Huaibei, Anhui Province of China. China's stock index ended down 1 percent on Friday as U.S. market slump triggers global economic concerns.

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In this Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011 photo, tenor opera singer Thomas Glenn performs a part from the Peking opera "The Siege of Tiger Mountain" during "I Sing Beijing" program's gala concert at National Center for Performing Arts, China's premier opera house, in Beijing.

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