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Hillary Was Right to Downplay Human Rights in China

Sam Black | Posted 04.04.2009 | World

Read More: Taiwan, Boston Globe, Human Rights, Hillary Clinton Asia Trip, Hillary Clinton, Washington Post, Legitimacy, China Human Rights, Tiananmen Square, China, Foreign Policy, World News
Sam Black

International legitimacy depends on consistency. The less we sound like we preach human rights only when it's to our advantage (and we're not prepared to back it up) the better.

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Letter From Paris: Heads Up, China

Beth Arnold | Posted 04.04.2009 | World

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Beth Arnold

So it looks like Pierre Bergé will get to keep his stunning Chinese bronze fountainheads that turned into the show stealers of his and Yves Saint Laurent's breathtaking collection auctioned off in Paris last week.

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Tibet's Unlikely Defender: A Chinese Journalist's Change of Mind

Rebecca Novick | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media

Read More: China-Tibet-Crackdown, China Human Rights Violations, Human Rights, China Tibet, China Human Rights, Journalism, China, Media, Chinese Censorship, Media News
Rebecca Novick

Zhu Rui has met the Dalai Lama twice now. "He has such simplicity," she says, "which is why many Chinese leaders don't understand him. They are much too complicated."

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China Hits Back, Denounces US 'Rights Abuse'

BBC NEWS | Posted 03.30.2009 | World

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China has responded in detail to a US report published this week criticising China for alleged rights abuses....

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Michael Posner To Head State Department's Human Rights Bureau: Official

Bloomberg.com | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, State Department, Human Rights First, Michael Posner, China, Hillary Clinton, Michael Posner State Department, China Human Rights, World News

Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- China's human rights record worsened last year in areas that included harassment of dissidents and repression of ethnic minorit...

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Clinton In Asia: Between China And A Hard Place

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

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Stuart Whatley

Unlike Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International, Clinton's job demands she be more than a one-trick pony -- she does not, and never will, enjoy the luxury of having only one prerogative.

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Charter 08: Chinese Activists Question Effectiveness Of Popular Democracy Charter

Huffington Post Contributor | Joel Schectman | Posted 03.26.2009 | World

Read More: China Charter 08, Chinese Activists, Liu Xiaobo, China Democracy Charter, China, China Democracy, China Human Rights, World News

Jiang Qisheng was among the first to sign the pro-democracy manifesto -- which calls for a radical departure from China's current one party system. In...

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Clinton's China Trip Raises Hopes And Fears In Beijing

Inter Press Service | Antoaneta Bezlova | Posted 03.20.2009 | World

Read More: Hillary Clinton China, Beijing, Clinton Asia Society, Clinton China, Inter Press Service, Us-China Relations, Hillary Clinton, China, China Human Rights, World News

BEIJING, Feb 17 (IPS) - United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's upcoming maiden trip to China this week has raised both expectations and ...

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Baby Steps: Online Debate, Dissent, and Democracy

Alexander Davenport | Posted 03.08.2009 | World

Read More: China Internet Access, China Internet, China Censorship, China Human Rights, China, World News, World News
Alexander Davenport

Seconds after Wen Jiabao, China's popular Premier, saw a Cambridge University student's shoe whiz by him, China's blogosphere exploded with opinions.

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Calling Tibet? Please Hang Up and Try Again

Rebecca Novick | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Read More: China Tibet Crackdown, Human Rights, Tibet, China Tibet, Human Rights Watch, China Human Rights, World News
Rebecca Novick

Your call might abruptly end in mid-sentence, say exiled Tibetans, especially if you mention anything "sensitive."

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Beatings, Protests, Arrests Mark 60th Annual Human Rights Day

Huffington Post | Posted 01.10.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba Beats Activist, Human Rights Cuba, United Nations Human Rights Day, International Human Rights, Angelina Jolie, China Arrests Protesters, Human Rights Day, United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, China Human Rights, Civil Rights, 60th Human Rights Day, 60 Human Rights Day, Human Rights 2008, Human Rights Day 2008, World News

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. The Financial Times reports that the UN human rights commissioner, Navi Pill...

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Obammunism

Disgrasian | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Obama Communist, Toy Safety, Tainted Chinese Milk, Lead Paint Toys, China Olympics, Obama Shared Toys, Obama, China Toys, Mccain Obama Socialist, Sharing Toys, China Human Rights, Obama Communism, Barack Obama, Toy Recalls, Stereotypes, Obama Socialist Smear, Racial Stereotypes, Socialism, Obama Socialist, China, Toxic Toys, McCain Smear Campaign, Barack Obama Smears, Republican Smear Machine, Smears, China Opening Ceremonies, Communism Obama, Politics News
Disgrasian

Like the Chinese, Obama is a Communist. So you know what that means, right? Obama not only shared his toys, but he, like the Chinese, first tainted them with lead paint.

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What's Gold Got To Do With It: China's Post-Olympic Identity

Chi Tung | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Us Economic Crisis, China Human Rights, Yao Ming, Liu Xiang Injury, China and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, International, Politics News
Chi Tung

Winning more golds than anyone else is exactly the kind of paradoxical achievement that enables New China to keep marching to the beat of its own hollow drum

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Yellow Peril Or Power? China Reconsidered (Again)

Chi Tung | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media

Read More: China Milk Scandal, Journalistic Bias, Yao Ming, Old Media vs. New Media, Chinese Culture, Food Politics, Old Media Death Watch, Chinese Government, Chinese Food, Mao Zedong, China, New Media, Bill Nye the Science Guy, China Human Rights, Chinese Censorship, Old Media, Media News
Chi Tung

American media coverage of China tends to slant one of two ways: toward fat, happy and unquestioning globalization, or small-minded, unblinking provincialism.

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China's Deadly Investments

John Prendergast | Posted 03.30.2009 | World

Read More: Darfur, Human Rights, China Oil, Zimbabwe, Burma, Genocide, United Nations, Sudan, UN Security Council, China, China Human Rights, World News
John Prendergast

Washington and activists around the world need to focus on Beijing's investment strategy -- its economic interests are undermined by its present foreign policy and offering China real alternatives.

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Arrested in Tibet: A Young American's Journey of Fear

Rebecca Novick | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Olympics, Tibetan Protesters, China Olympics, Tibet, Tibetan, China Human Rights, Wen-Yan King, Tibetan Proteschina, China Tibet Crackdown, Politics News
Rebecca Novick

In a Tibetan stall, Wen asked the price of something in Chinese. The shopkeeper ignored her, and then muttered bitterly in English, "No good Chinese." She wanted to find out what lay at the root of that sentiment.

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Human Rights Group Overtakes Beijing Radio Station For Protest

Times Online | Posted 09.07.2008 | Media

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The world's best-known advocate of freedom of the media took its message to the heart of Beijing this morning, making a pirate broadcast on Chinese ra...

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Sponsoring the Olympics Is Bad for Business

Sophie Richardson | Posted 09.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Olympic Sponsors, Tibet, Beijing, China Tibet, China Human Rights, Olympics, Business News
Sophie Richardson

The 12 biggest Olympics sponsors may soon learn that government-fanned waves of nationalism are bad for business. The sponsors are only shooting themselves in the foot -- and paying to do so!

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George Bush -- Waiting to Inhale in Beijing

Patt Morrison | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

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Patt Morrison

When Bush steps off Air Force One in Beijing, maybe he should be wearing his own smog mask, if only as a sign of solidarity with this country's athletes.

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Olympic Protests: A Second Look

Jeremy Haft | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, China Human Rights, Beijing Olympics, Olympics, Olympic Protests, Olympics Boycott, Politics News
Jeremy Haft

If real human rights reform is what you want, then castigating the Chinese on the world stage isn't too productive -- mainly because it impedes the progress that is actually being made on the ground.

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Welcome to the Orwell Olympics

Marty Kaplan | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: China Darfur, Olympic Sponsorship, Beijing Olympics, Olympics, China Human Rights, Politics News
Marty Kaplan

Bush doesn't have to ask Hu Jintao to tear down the Great Wall of China, but the least he can do is to use in public, in China, some of the lovely human rights language he claims he's been saying in private.

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The China Question: To Beg or to Blog?

Steve Posner | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: China Communist Party, Chinese Communists, Chinese Workers, Beijing Olympics, Chinese, Mao Zedong, China Censorship, China Poverty, Chinese Peasants, China, Shanghai, China Human Rights, China Boycott, Politics News
Steve Posner

Mao's successors in the Communist Party are offering the Chinese people food but not freedom, and many are happy to take the deal.

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Five Things We Wish George W. Bush Would Read Before His Olympic Visit to China

Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess | Posted 08.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Tibet Protests, Beijing Olympics, Cnn, Kevin Rudd, George W. Bush, China Olympics, Olympic Torch, Mao Zedong, China, China Tibet, China Human Rights, China Earthquake, Olympics, Media News
Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess

In recognition of the limited time he has before departing for Beijing, we've put together a brief list of the best recent China writing on the Web.

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Human Rights In China Made Worse By Olympics: Report

Amnesty International | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Olympics, Amnesty International, Amnesty International China, Beijing Olympics, China Human Rights, China, Politics News

The Chinese authorities have broken their promise to improve the country's human rights situation and betrayed the core values of the Olympics, accord...

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The Silent Olympics

Kavita N. Ramdas | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dalai Lama, Beijing Olympics, Olympics, Globalization, Tibet, China Tibet, China Human Rights, China, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Politics News
Kavita N. Ramdas

In this age of globalization, the Chinese government can no longer assume that its whole-hearted embrace of free markets can occur without its own citizens pushing for other kinds of freedoms.

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