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Earlier this month, the United Nations refused, again, to censure China for its human rights record since the government crackdown in 1989's pro-democracy student protests...
That could easily happen now that Beijing is in the midst of a pre-emptive crackdown on anyone who it deems is out to embarrass China. It is almost routine for security police to take leading activists out of circulation when high-visibility political events are scheduled, and last week there were two of them: the opening of the NPC and Christopher's arrival. During the Secretary of State's visit, the Chinese posted uniformed and plainclothes police around the homes of dissidents and their sympathizers...
...current crackdown, however, displays more than the usual steely vigilance. Authorities swept up at least 16 well-known dissidents over the past two weeks. Hundreds of others are under close surveillance. Beijing is reacting to the first stirrings of a revived democracy movement. Not only are dissidents seeking public attention during a period in which the U.S. is demanding that China improve its human-rights record and Deng Xiaoping, China's senior leader, is fading, but the hard-line government fears a newfound boldness among the activists. The men in power detect signs that their real nightmare -- an alliance...
...weekend they had done something: an agreement was announced that will allow Motorola broader access to Japan's cellular-telephone market. Christopher's next stop was China, where talks on renewing that country's most-favored-nation trading status got off to a rocky start. China's recent crackdown on dissidents, Christopher said, "certainly bodes ill" for chances of renewal. Premier Li Peng told Christopher, "China will never accept U.S.-style human rights." As for U.S. trade, "China can live without...
Under a harsh military crackdown on the Islamic Front, outlawed in 1992, the battle for Algeria has only worsened. Armed militants ambush police, assassinate officials and murder intellectuals and others opposed to the fundamentalist movement. Security forces arrest suspects at will, torture prisoners and sentence alleged rebels to death in extraconstitutional courts. The government attributes the daily civilian slayings to the Islamists. But Algerian and Western sources say antifundamentalist death squads, suspected of links to the security services, also operate during the nightly curfews, kidnapping Islamists or their relatives from home and dumping their bodies nearby...