From the AP:
The United States and China reported no major breakthroughs Friday after only their second round of talks about human rights since 2002…
Michael Posner, the assistant secretary of state, told reporters that another round will happen some time next year in Beijing…
Posner said in addition to talks on freedom of religion and expression, labor rights and rule of law, officials also discussed Chinese complaints about problems with U.S. human rights, which have included crime, poverty, homelessness and racial discrimination.
He said U.S. officials did not whitewash the American record and in fact raised on its own a new immigration law in Arizona that requires police to ask about a person’s immigration status if there is suspicion the person is in the country illegally.
Why are you presuming that both countries can't be guilty of human rights violations? I agree that China is the more blatant offender, but it does not excuse our own human rights blunders (slavery, child labor, Japanese internment camps, racial profiling, et al.)
ReplyDeleteAlso... "losers?" So we've resorted to baseless name-calling in lieu of factual, reasonable discourse, apparently. You would make a much stronger case if you actually explained what bothers you about the Obama administration, rather than resorting to grade-school playground discourse. If you have good points to make, why are you hiding behind vitriol?
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