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Butt out, Chinese tell Clinton

Sea-fray remarks faulted, but Beijing tells her of progress with U.S.

By STEVEN LEE MYERS AND JANE PERLEZ THE NEW YORK TIME

Posted: September 5, 2012 at 5:53 a.m.

Credit: AFP POOL
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Clinton is in Beijing to press Chinese authorities to agree to peacefully resolve disputes with their smaller neighbors over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Beijing on Tuesday night to a barrage of unusually harsh coverage in China’s official news media over what they called U.S. meddling in territorial disputes in the region — and then a strikingly warm welcome from the country’s foreign minister.

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