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Article: ECONOMY-CHINA: MELTDOWN SILENCES HUMAN RIGHTS CRITICS.
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- Interpress Service
- Article date:
- March 6, 2009
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By Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING, Mar. 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) -- Critics of China's human rights record have been silenced by the need to cooperate with Beijing on overcoming the recession.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent remarks en route to China that contentious issues such as human rights "can't interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crises" have been interpreted here as a signal that China is gaining an upper hand in a long and raucous debate about what constitutes human rights for the world's most populous country.
"The United States has always been at the core of China's human ...