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Last week, 36 members of the House of Representatives wrote President Bush a letter, urging him to call on Chinese President Hu Jintao to release Yang. Bush should not ignore Yang’s case for diplomatic or economic reasons—as the U.S. did when it, for the first time in years, did not introduce a resolution criticizing China at the 2003 session of the U.N. Human Rights Commission. The U.S. President, as leader of the free world, has an obligation to protect human rights and demand proper treatment of the accused. As Yang awaits his long-deferred...
Last week, 36 members of the House of Representatives wrote President Bush a letter, urging him to call on Chinese President Hu Jintao to release Yang. Bush should not ignore Yang’s case for diplomatic or economic reasons—as the U.S. did when it, for the first time in years, did not introduce a resolution criticizing China at the 2003 session of the U.N. Human Rights Commission. The U.S. President, as leader of the free world, has an obligation to protect human rights and demand proper treatment of the accused. As Yang awaits his long-deferred...
...Nowhere has this newfound confidence been on display more than in China's rapidly improving international relations. Under communist rule, Chinese foreign policy had often been marked by suspicion and a certain belligerent petulance. But in the past few months, under Hu's leadership, Beijing has emerged as an increasingly sophisticated and mature player on the global stage, a power more intent on diplomatic pragmatism that preserves the country's robust economic growth than on replaying the Maoist rhetoric of confrontation. "Hu puts more emphasis on substance in foreign policy rather than on symbols," says Chu Shulong, director...
...Last week's Party plenum showed that President Hu Jintao's administration is aware of the need to be more responsive about China's social problems?but it skirted the issue of political reform. Unless it tackles that, along with a determined effort to broaden its appeal in ways which address popular concerns, the heirs of the victory of 1949 could find themselves sharing Chiang's predicament...
...representatives suggested Bush broach the issue at an Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit that he and Chinese President Hu Jintao attended today...