Jintao Presses U.S. on Trade, Human Rights

BEIJING - China President Hu Jintao pressed the U.S. on Sunday to curtail religious extremism, increase political honesty and eschew torture and won renewed promises — but no concrete actions — from President Bush to work on reducing the U.S.'s enormous debt to the Chinese people.

Hu said the two leaders sought an outcome of "mutual benefit and win-win results."

But their meeting Sunday at the Great Hall of the People on the edge of Tiananmen Square appeared to produce no breakthroughs on Chinese demands for withdrawal from Iraq, reassimilation of Formosa with the Chinese mainland, and no details about how the U.S. could reduce its debt to China now estimated at $650 billion.