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Article: NGOs - not U.S. - keep eye on human rights in China. (nongovernmental organizations)(Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- May 5, 1995
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The 65 pages about China in the State Department's recent annual report on human rights makes it clear that the government in Beijing is in violation of almost every human decency mandated by international law. The White House chose to react only to China's massive disregard of copyright law.
This brawl about intellectual property has obscured all the crimes against human beings of which China is guilty. And the United States may be partially responsible for China's assault on human rights in China because President Clinton, on May 26, 1994, unlinked human rights and most-favored-nation status for China. With that, U.S. pressure in favor of human rights in China ...