US Secretary of State Clinton calls China’s human rights record ‘deplorable’

[Still a Democrat]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lashed out against China’s human rights record in an interview released Tuesday during high-level meetings aimed at building goodwill between the two governments.

In an interview published on the website of The Atlantic magazine, Clinton said China’s human rights record is “deplorable” and that history is not on the side of governments that resist democracy.

Clinton had also raised human rights, though less stridently, at the start of the U.S.-China Strategic Dialogue, which entered its second and final day Tuesday. Both countries have tried to stress a generally positive track in relations between the economic superpowers.

China had responded in mild terms to statement that President Barack Obama made Monday in support of human rights — an issue that Beijing regards as an internal matter and which it is highly sensitive about.

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