Bush criticises China's repression

US president George Bush told China bluntly today that America was strongly opposed to the way the communist government repressed its people.

In a rebuke delivered from the heart of Asia on the cusp of the Olympic Games, and perhaps his last major address in Asia, Mr Bush said the US spoke out for a free press, free assembly and working rights not to antagonise China’s leaders, but because it was the only path the potent US rival could take to reach its full potential.