Hillary Clinton Blasts China on Human Rights Record

Last month, secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave an interview to the Atlantic magazine. The interview was published this month just before the two-day US-China meetings in Washington.

In the interview, Clinton said that China “has a deplorable human rights record.”

When asked by the interviewer if she thought China’s recent crackdown on dissenters might be a sign that they’re afraid of what’s going on in the Middle East Arab Spring, she said, “Well, they are. They’re worried, and they’re trying to stop history, which is a fool’s errand. They cannot do it. But, they’re going to hold it off as long as possible.”

During the Washington meetings, China said that its human rights record has improved.

Well, to my mind, one of the two got it right, and that one was Hillary Clinton.

If you want proof, just ask the Chinese artist, ai weiwei. Oops you can’t because he’s been in detention in China since early April for undisclosed sins against the state, and the world has not had any message from him since his arrest.