Task: Pos Tagging
Input (English): Sentence: Under President Hu Jintao , Beijing has opened out to New Delhi and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is expected to visit early next year , making friends by formally accepting Sikkim as part of India and backing India as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council -- {{ thus }} leaving Washington as the only one of the " permanent five " that has not yet done so . 
Word: thus
Output (English): ADV