{"id":420864,"date":"2011-05-10T18:09:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T18:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/10\/clinton-condemns-china-on-rights\/"},"modified":"2011-05-10T18:09:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T18:09:03","slug":"clinton-condemns-china-on-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/10\/clinton-condemns-china-on-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton condemns China on rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"69.1311953353\"><span><span>10 May 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>14:09 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has criticised China&#8217;s crackdown on dissent as &#8220;a fool&#8217;s errand&#8221;, saying Beijing is trying to halt history.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2011\/06\/danger-falling-tyrants\/8493\/5\/\">interview with The Atlantic<\/a>, Mrs Clinton also called the nation&#8217;s human rights record &#8220;deplorable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She defended US dealings with Beijing, saying: &#8220;We live in the real world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Kim Ghattas in Washington says Mrs Clinton seemed to suggest the Chinese system itself would collapse and that democracy was inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>The article quotes Mrs Clinton as saying last month that China&#8217;s leaders were &#8220;worried&#8221; that the wave of pro-democracy protests overtaking the Middle East would spread east to China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re trying to stop history, which is a fool&#8217;s errand,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They cannot do it, but they&#8217;re going to hold it off as long as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>China-US talks<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since February, China has detained hundreds of pro-democracy activists, lawyers and writers and has clamped down on news media reporting on the Middle East protests.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Clinton&#8217;s remarks were published as US and Chinese officials held high-level strategic and economic talks in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>At the opening of the meetings on Monday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary\/rm\/2011\/05\/162881.htm\">Mrs Clinton said in a speech<\/a> that the US remained concerned about the human rights situation in China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know over the long arch of history that societies that work toward respecting human rights are going to be more prosperous, stable, and successful,&#8221; she told Chinese officials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That has certainly been proven time and time again, but most particularly in the last months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Criticism of China&#8217;s human rights record had been muted at the beginning of the Obama administration but has become increasingly more vocal, our correspondent says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The rest is here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-us-canada-13353199\" title=\"Clinton condemns China on rights\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clinton condemns China on rights<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 10 May 2011 Last updated at 14:09 ET US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has criticised China&#8217;s crackdown on dissent as &#8220;a fool&#8217;s errand&#8221;, saying Beijing is trying to halt history. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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