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Article: Human Rights and Human Nature; Taking Inspiration, Not Direct Orders; No Welcome Mat Here for the U.N.; In Japan, Scary Deaths in Numbers; Ecstasy? Nope, More of a Downer.
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- March 20, 2006
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Human Rights and Human Nature
In one of the annual rites of spring, Washington and Beijing last week traded human-rights critiques, a bit of reciprocal finger-pointing that this year falls undiplomatically close to a Katrina-delayed White House visit by China's president, Hu Jintao. The State Department's annual global human-rights review cites China's trends toward "increased harassment, detention, and imprisonment" of government critics, tightening government censorship of the media, and violently suppressing protests "by those seeking to redress grievances." China quickly parried. Besides the "chronic malady" of racial discrimination in the United States, ...