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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Prime Minister Stephen Harper hinted Wednesday that Chinese President Hu Jintao cancelled an upcoming meeting in Vietnam because he intended to question China’s human rights record, specifically the case of Chinese Canadian Huseyin Celil, who is in jail in China. Harper, traveling to the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference, said Canada values its trade and business relationship with China, but “I don’t think Canadians want us to sell out important Canadian values. They don’t want us to sell out to the almighty dollar.” The prime minister added that they are open to meeting with other governments, but only unconditionally....