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President Bush dedicated a massive new $434 million U.S. embassy in Beijing today, calling it a symbol of deepening ties between the two trading partners and sometimes political rivals.Bush, in Beijing to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, called current ties between the U.S. and China "constructive and cooperative and candid."Bush hailed the two countries' work to rid North Korea of nuclear weapons, battle diseases, respond to natural disasters and increase trade. Then he criticized -- again -- the communist nation's repression of its people."We strongly believe societies which allow the free expression of ideas tend to be the most prosperous and the most peaceful," he said.
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