Report: US Secretary of State Clinton calls China’s human rights record ‘deplorable’

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lashed out against China’s human rights record in an interview released Tuesday during high-level meetings aimed at building goodwill between the two governments.

In an interview published on the website of The Atlantic magazine, Clinton said China’s human rights record is “deplorable” and that history is not on the side of governments that resist democracy.

Clinton had also raised human rights, though less stridently, at the start of the U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue, which entered its second and final day Tuesday. Both countries have tried to stress a generally positive track in relations between the economic superpowers.

China had responded in mild terms to statement that President Barack Obama made Monday in support of human rights — an issue that Beijing regards as an internal matter and which it is highly sensitive about.

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The interview: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/05/hillary-clinton-and-chinese-doom-the-dave-chappelle-factor/238650/

Piss them off before the meeting starts. How do you expect to negotiate anything after this.

pushed hard to extend Most Favored Nation Trading Status to ... China!

Obviously, she's her own person, but it is sadly ironic.

shipments to Russia as a statement against human rights it only hurt are athletes and farmers

In my view it is much better to influence people through dialog and example

However, the "public" dialog the Secretary of State is doing is not what I had in mind

The history of China is long and complicated, and the western colonialsm only complicated it more

rather the lack there-of?
Just for starters...We have Prisoners working for the Defense Dept making "goods", locked up and working for Cheap, Cheap wages.
How are we better than China or any other comparable country? Who are We to criticize them????

That claim, is but just "one goat that has escaped the barn-yard". A wise politician would never utter claims of another country violating these rights unless and until American's are fully made whole again by the corporate gov't that has nearly destroyed us.

Obviously the WH and the SOS are on the same page. More correctly - she is doing as asked.

:thumbsdown:

In an interview published on the website of The Atlantic magazine, Clinton said China’s human rights record is “deplorable” and that history is not on the side of governments that resist democracy.

This almost makes democracy sound totalitarian. Do you use that language when trying to build goodwill ?

In what world?

I guess you like China's history on human rights? Where are you from?

and our leaders are so damn hypocritical we support human rights violators around the world and our record is a bit spotty,ask the Indians,the blacks,the Mexicans,all of the small countries we have annexed through wars and buying land and the people(Alaska)all of them populated by people of color.Our European allies have now or had colonies inhabited by people of color.Leave the propaganda to the experts( Fox News).

Yes, you're right.

E.g. Hillary from the US Empire.

One brutal empire criticizing another brutal empire for not being brutal in the preferred manner.

Some world we got goin', alright.

You are stating the incredibly obvious!!

and memos make it all good.

let's compare the USA and China.


Human Rights (1 being the best)
China scores a 8.39
The USA scores a 2.64
Source

political rights (1 being the best)
USA: 1
China: 7

civil liberties (1 being the best)
USA: 1
China: 6

Source

Is the USA perfect? certainly not. From a Human Rights standpoint, would I rather live here than in China? Damn straight