US: China human rights 'deteriorating'

[alp227]

Source: BBC

The US has called on China to address its ''deteriorating'' human rights situation following an annual dialogue.

Cases involving activists, lawyers and bloggers were raised at the talks, Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner told reporters at a briefing.

Beijing said it was willing to continue talks ''on the basis of equality and mutual respect'', the official Xinhua news agency reported.

The two-day, closed-door session took place in Washington.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18993615

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The Chinese government then reads the news about Bradley Manning, the PATRIOT Act, Congress introducing SOPA/PIPA/CISPA/etc., and the militarization of the police, then says, "clean up your own house first, America".

[Mnemosyne]

1. Thanks alp. The hypocrisy is unbearable. nt

[Sherman A1]

3. +1

[stockholmer]

8. +1b

[Suji to Seoul]

2. I live here in China. You couldn't be more accurate

We lost the moral high ground. Good luck, America, trying to get it back.

[99th_Monkey]

4. Not to mention OWS Zuccatti Park - naked oppression USA style.

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[woo me with science]

5. ...

U.S. falls 27 places in worldwide freedom of the press rankings
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/us-falls-27-places-in-worldwide-freedom-of-the-press-rankings/2012/01/25/gIQAFWZvQQ_blog.html


Pentagon, CIA sued for lethal drone attacks on US citizens
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/drone-attacks-lawsuit/


The NSA is building a massive data center in Utah to read every email you'll ever send.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/4-high-tech-ways-federal-government-spying-private-153556125.html
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/

[dipsydoodle]

6. Yes...........

[hifiguy]

7. The country that imprisons more people than

any other on earth and practices indefinite detention has no basis for criticizing any other nation's human rights record.