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Article: CHINA'S HUMAN RIGHTS GET SCATHING REVIEW RECORD HAS TAKEN A STEP BACKWARD, SAYS THE STATE DEPARTMENT.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 27, 1999
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China's human rights record deteriorated sharply late last year with a crackdown on political dissent that reversed recent signs of improvement, the Clinton administration said yesterday.
The administration's critical assessment of China's human rights performance came on the eve of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's departure for Beijing and a day after the Senate urged the administration to push for a resolution condemning China at the U.N. Human Rights Commission's meeting next month in Geneva.
President Clinton, in a speech in San Francisco, defended his policy of promoting ties with China. But he said China will come to understand, sooner or ...