BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Friday criticised a group of U.S. lawmakers for calling for a Washington street near the Chinese embassy to be named after imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, behaviour it said was "provocative" and "ignorant".
Thirteen members of the U.S. House of Representatives asked Mayor Vincent Gray in a letter to rename part of International Place NW after the 2010 Nobel recipient, saying it would bring "renewed international attention to Chinese human rights violations", the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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