The US & China: The Human Rights Issue

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/01/china_human_rights.html

The relationship between the United States and China may well be the most important bilateral relationship in the world. In recognition of that fact, the Center for American Progress is releasing a new report entitled, "Strategic Persistence: How the United States Can Help Improve Human Rights in China." The report provides both fundamental principles that should guide U.S. policymakers in their efforts to effect positive change in China's human rights practices and concrete recommendations to advance those efforts.

China remains responsible for profound violations of its people's civil and political rights. In its foreign policy, China has often backed repressive regimes around the world and watered down international sanctions against these regimes. None of this is in the United States' best interests. Given the high degree of economic interdependence between the United States and China, as well as China's growing military reach, American interests are best served by a stable China with a robust commitment to the rule of law—conditions that are undermined by a failure to respect human rights.

U.S. approaches to human rights in China have ranged from confrontation to passivity and have rarely reflected a coordinated strategy across government entities. The key to U.S. efforts to promote human rights in China is to take a coherent, pragmatic, non-ideological approach that goes beyond easy rhetoric, takes advantage of strategic openings, and recognizes the value of persistence. Ultimately, China must be persuaded that greater democracy and human rights are in its own best interests and are integral to its becoming the highly respected global leader it aspires to be.

Distinguished Speakers:

Harry Harding, Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University
Louisa Coan Greve, Program Director for East Asia at the National Endowment for Democracy

Presenting the Report and Moderating the ...

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[CoattailW]

@XpresloX guys, you don't know the condition in china , now i am talking to you as a chinese person, we are seriously lack of rights, i wanna ask, where is my vote? i really admire you americans because you can make many decisions about yours country, i want to study in the us after i gratute from my universiry.

[XpresloX]

Human right org. is controled by USA. it use human right as an instrument to against their ennemy. We never see Human right make the investigation the massacle in Iraq and the torture in Guantanamo by USA ?

[Gregman420]

@Keitai5263 "homeless on chinese streets are millionaires" HAHAHAHAHA!

[evil9999999999999999]

Is this guy the one who brought the civil commitment centers to America? If you look in the news our gov has put civil comitment centers in every state in the US calling them for sex offenders.

[TomAwtry]

We as a developed nation must recognize, along with adhere to the absolute enforcement of international treaties and agreements and above all only engage in business practices with countries subscribing to UN recognized policies regarding the issue of Human Rights in all countries.