Hillary points towards this article from the China Daily on the US human rights record and then shares the comment she left in response.
I don’t have anything to add in terms of analysis of the article, but it’s interesting (and frustrating, really) to read. Obviously you can manipulate statistics and make gross generalizations. How much of the same do we do with regard to China?
That said, I find it hard to take any report on human rights coming out of China seriously. Especially when the article starts like this:
On February 25, 2004, the State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2003 (called the “reports” thereafter). As in previous years, the United States once again acted as “the world human rights police” by distorting and censuring in the “reports” the human rights situations in more than 190 countries and regions across the world, including China. And, as usual, the United States once again “omitted” its own long-standing malpractices and problems concerning human rights in the “reports”. Therefore, we have to, as before, help the United States maintain its human rights record.
You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round….
