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To: lbryce
He said America’s relationship with the Chinese is important to the world but said that he stresses in meetings with Chinese leaders the need to uphold universal rights for Christians, Tibetan Buddhists and others.

Yeah, that's why your administration began with this...

Clinton Criticized for Not Making Human Rights a Top Priority February 25, 2009

Several U.S. Congressmen expressed "dismay" this week over Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's statement that human rights would not be a top priority for the United States in its dealings with China.


19 posted on 02/06/2014 2:47:20 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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Hillary Clinton Fails to Promote Human Rights to China

“In a shocking display of pandering, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made it clear in Beijing, that the Obama Administration has chosen to peddle U.S. debt to the largest dictatorship in the world over combating torture, forced abortion, forced labor, religious persecution, human sex trafficking, gendercide, and genocide,” Smith said.

“Secretary Clinton said concern for the protection of human rights of the Chinese people can’t ‘interfere’ with the economic crisis, climate change, and security – as if human rights were somehow disconnected and irrelevant to those issues,” the New Jersey congressmen said.


20 posted on 02/06/2014 2:54:11 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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