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United States Ambassador to the United Nations Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe (L) speaks with China's counsellor Xia Jingge before the special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the situation in Syria, in Geneva August 22, 2011. The session was postponed due to technical problems.
A worker makes knives from empty bomb shells, used during Chinese attacks on Taiwan in the civil war period, on Taiwan's Kinmen Islands on August 22, 2011. Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou plans to preside over a high-profile ceremony in Kinmen on August 23, a Taiwanese-controlled fortified island group off China's southeastern Fujian Province, to honour hundreds of people killed in the 1958 Chinese artillery bombardment.
Chinese tourists wave from a tour boat on the eve of the 53rd anniversary of a massive bombing campaign towards Taiwan's Kinmen island, Taiwan, Monday, Aug. 22, 2011. The Communist government forces on mainland China on August 23, 1958, resumed a massive artillery bombardment on Taiwan's outlying islands of Kinmen (formerly Quemoy) and Matsu, and threatened invasion, the event widely known as the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, which continued until October.
Chinese diners crowd the Yaoji Chaogan restaurant, after the restaurant's popularity soared due to US Vice President Joe Biden's impromptu meal there last week, in Beijing, on August 22, 2011. Chinese diners are flocking to a restaurant in Beijing whose house speciality is pig intestine in soup after US Vice President Joe Biden lunched there last week. Biden took time out from official talks in the Chinese capital to eat at the small, family-run eatery in downtown Beijing, earning plaudits from netizens and headlines in China's state-run newspapers praising his 'noodle diplomacy'.
A government official stands in front of a wall of speakers that formerly blasted propaganda messages back to mainland China on the eve of the 53rd anniversary of a massive bombing campaign on Taiwan's Kinmen island, Taiwan, Monday, Aug. 22, 2011.
This photo taken on the August 21, 2011 shows Chinese migrant workers resting at their makeshift tents near a construction site in Hefei, east China's Anhui province. Many migrant workers suffer from discrimination in cities where more affluent residents often look down on them, sparking rising concern over the potential for this urban-rural divide to trigger unrest.
Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin poses in front of his work at the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, August 22, 2011. The memorial to the American civil rights leader will be officially dedicated on August 28, the 48th anniversary of King Jr's "I have a dream" speech on the Washington Mall.
Rescuers work at the site of a collapsed house at Qingzhen City, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Aug. 22, 2011. Two trapped workers were saved 30 minutes after the accident happened on Monday noon, as the three-story building was under illegal expansion for one more floor. (Xinhua/Li Xueguo)