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In this May 23, 2000 file photo, Chinese men count money at their fruit stall where California oranges are set for sale  at a Beijing fruit wholesale market. The global financial crisis is overshadowing U.S.-Chinese trade tensions as Cabinet ministers from the two sides meet this week for talks on the long-range growth of one of the world's most important economic relationships.  Given the unsteady world economy, the two sides are adding the issue of managing risk to the already broad agenda of trade, energy and the environment of their Strategic Economic Dialogue. No grand agreements are expected from the talks Thursday,  Dec. 4, and Friday, Dec. 5, 2008, which are designed for rapport-building more than negotiation.  (AP Photo/File)
In this Nov. 25, 2008 file photo, factory workers occupy an office after smashing equipment during a protest at the Kaida toy factory over a labor dispute in Dongguan, east China's Guangdong province. China's manufacturing activity contracted sharply in November as a downturn in the world's fourth-largest economy worsened, raising the threat of politically volatile job losses, according to data reported Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Color China Photo, File)
A volunteer wears a sticker a red ribbon, the symbol of AIDS awareness, as  Health authorities and the U.N. AIDS agency  launched a campaign to fight discrimination against people with AIDS in China, at the iconic Bird's Nest national stadium grounds in Beijing, China, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008.    After years of denying that AIDS was a problem, Chinese leaders have shifted gears dramatically in recent years, confronting the disease more openly and promising anonymous testing, free treatment for the poor and a ban on discrimination against people with the virus.(AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)
Chinese spectators watch a trial horse racing event  in which spectators could bet on four races at the Orient Lucky City racecourse in Wuhan, China, Saturday Nov. 29, 2008. Organized gambling on horse races has returned to mainland China for the first time since the ruling Communist Party seized power in 1949, state media reported. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
In this April 27, 2008 file photo, young Chinese protesting against Tibet Independence and calling for a boycott of French retail supermarket Carrefour gather outside one of its branches in Changchun , northeastern China's Jilin province.  Words on red banner reads
Ran Chen, right, and her sister Di Chen, left, speak about their father Wo Weihan, after Ran Chen visited him in jail in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. The family members are in Beijing to appeal for Wo, a Chinese medical researcher who was convicted on charges of spying for Taiwan and was expected to be executed in coming days. The sisters said they have been granted an extra visit with their father, giving the family hope for a stay of execution. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

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