U.S. President Barack Obama looks at Chinese President Xi Jinping as he arrives to watch the Welcome to Country ceremony by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people at the G20 summit in Brisbane, November 15, 2014. REUTERS/Mark Baker/Pool
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading U.S. senators on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to use the visit to Washington next month of Chinese President Xi Jinping to take him to task for an "extraordinary assault" on human rights.
Ten senators, led by Ben Cardin, top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and John McCain, Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Obama should make human rights "a key and public component" of his talks with Xi.
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