Chinese Christian Activists Meet With President Bush

Reuters and the Associated Press report that yesterday President George W. Bush met at the White House with Chinese Christian dissidents Yu Jie (an author), Li Baiguang (a legal scholar) and Wang Yi (a law professor and blogger). All three are active in China's underground Protestant church movement. The Chinese activists are attempting to use China's own constitution to liberalize its treatment of religion. The White House visitors said that they joined in prayer with Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice before their meeting ended. The meeting was briefly mentioned in yesterday's press briefing aboard Air Force One.