German parliament panel cancels China trip over lawmaker travel ban

Beijing picks fight with what could become Germany's next ruling party

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German Green Party member Margarete Bause, right, meets dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at the airport in Munich, Germany, in this July 2015 photo.  © Reuters

JENS KASTNER, contributing writer

HAMBURG, Germany -- The digital committee of Germany's parliament has effectively called off a planned trip to China over Beijing's insistence that a Green party lawmaker be removed from the participants list because of her strong stance on the Asian power's human rights record.

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