Showing posts with label Human rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human rights. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Hillary Clinton whiffs in first visit to China as Secretary of State

Back on February 15, I wrote about the need of the Obama administration to hold abusers of human and religious rights accountable. How is the new administration doing? Consider this comment from new Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her recent visit to Beijing, China:

"Human rights cannot interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis, and the security crises."

In other words, it will be business as usual when it comes to holding China accountable for its atrocious human rights record. Clinton did make some comments about having frank discussions with China about this issue, but I have not heard many specifics.

Money triumphs over blood....again.