China criticizes US Human Rights Record in Report
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First of all YES the same people are running China....the same Communist Party, with leaders that were involved in the 60s, if not the 50s. It is as if the NSDAP was still running Germany (except NSDAP actually murdered a much lower number of people)....would you play apologist for that??
The slave trade was dead almost 100 years before Communist China came into being....killed in a Civil war that changed the nature of the nation. After China changes through Civil war and rebellion, come talk to me about comparisons.
China executes between 6,000 and 10,000 people per year. The number of executions is a state secret, most are done in secret, and if THAT doesn't tell you something.... BTW, the LOW estimate means China performs 80% of the executions in the world....despite the fact 60% of nations still use capital punishment.
And yes, China was literally ripping the guts out of its prisoners for sale very recently, if not still.
Ever hear of Freedom of Religion??
Freedom of Speech??
Freedom to keep and bear arms??
Freedom of conscience??
Free elections??
Right of peaceful protest??
NOT IN CHINA.
I swear, one would think that when the inevitable war comes with China, you will be playing Lord Ha Ha.
Get in touch with reality.
I think that they have a lease with the option to buy program in place.. It's the humane thing to do
There is injustice all over the world , including US and Canada Colpy .I just wonder where and from whom you get all the negative information about China .You must have very good connections to acquire such a sensitive
information .You have more knowledge of China than its inhabitants have ...and that`s not very healthy Colpy.
information .You have more knowledge of China than its inhabitants have ...and that`s not very healthy Colpy.
London Times in 2005:
The [lethal injection] vans, which cost £33,000 each, are fitted with closed circuit television, which permitted Li’s death to be watched by local members of the National People’s Congress gathered at the city’s funeral parlour.
In the past, capital punishment was carried out by a single shot to the back of the head at execution fields outside Chinese cities and families of the dead were sent a bill for the bullet. Now the vans are circulating in several provinces, it is a clean and discreet method of killing. Death by injection costs the state about £63 but is free to the victim’s relatives.
Considering how the Govt locks down info that is quite easy to believe.
Considering that there are thousands of demonstrations against corruption every year - why would the govt publish that.
Considering in China they have a show trial- you show up- then found guilty and then you may never show up again.
Considering how many Senior Officers in the PLA are pushing for a confrontation over the South China Sea.
Considering how the Govt uses a dangerous tool- Nationalism- a tool that can bite both ways as when it is loosed it cannot be controlled. And we know the Politburo loves control.
Yep a great place.
Yes ,that is an American phenomena .
Considering that there are thousands of demonstrations against corruption every year - why would the govt publish that.*********** Correct , they have you do it for them .
Considering in China they have a show trial- you show up- then found guilty and then you may never show up again.******************* Obviously you have showed up to tell us all about it.
And we know the Politburo loves control. ************** I don`t know if it`s the Politburo , something is controlling you .
Why America Should Applaud -- Not Condemn -- China's Growth
By Dan Carroll | ..
In recent years, political and economic pundits across the United States have spouted doom-and-gloom prophecies regarding Chinese growth as if it were some sort of GDP Godzilla. For all the proud patriotism, however, these same talking heads miss a critical point in the Chinese-American relationship. Americans -- and especially growth-minded investors -- will benefit far more from a wealthy China than they will from a beaten-down one.
It's time to get serious about China's place in the world economy, and why Americans should welcome it with open arms.
outdated notion that China and the U.S. compete in a zero-sum game of economics needs to go. As China's GDP grew in the 9% range during this century's first decade, the U.S. reaped significant rewards. American exports to the Asian nation rose more than 500% -- 500%! -- between 2000 and 2011. Exports to the rest of the world grew only 80% during that same time frame.
This year, the U.S. is on pace to export more than $100 billion worth of goods to China, making it America's third-largest export partner and largest outside of North America. As China's middle class grows, demand for American goods and services will only increase, generating greater profits for U.S. companies and stirring the sleepy American economy.
Even the all-important employment figure should rise on the backs of greater exports, which will require expansions of corporate payrolls to fulfill burgeoning demand. With a sunnier economic outlook, large companies won't be so hesitant to take on a little risk and invest their mounting piles of cash reserves. In 2010 alone, $70 billion in U.S. exports to China created 437,000 jobs. More jobs leads to more consumer spending in a virtuous economic cycle -- no stimulus needed.
"Not so fast," pundits cry. "What about China's swarm of cheap exports to the American market?"
True, China is the U.S.' largest import partner, on pace to pump nearly $400 billion worth of imports into the American economy in 2012. While $400 billion represents pretty severe capital flight, consider the effect of these cheaper goods on the consumer market. With Chinese goods estimated to be priced at a significant discount for the American consumer, that opportunity allows individuals to either allocate more of their income to other purchases, or -- gasp -- save more money. We can all get behind a plan that offers more discretionary money for the pocketbook.
An investor's windfall in the East
Investors have a clear stake in China's rise, too. While Chinese economic slowdown or upheaval may make sniping politicians cheer with joy, the markets will react with tremors and quakes.
Consider the aforementioned consumer goods. Cheap overseas production and pro-globalism policies of free trade help reduce the costs that companies shoulder. That lets them pass all that extra wealth down to their shareholders, which in turn grows your portfolio.
Another examples is evident in overseas factories for electronics manufacturers such as Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL ) and Hewlett-Packard. While these companies won't win awards for workplace safety in their Chinese factories, they do get a massive cost advantage from producing products overseas. Estimates average that Apple's 4G iPhone makes a gross margin of 72% per product, whereas producing the same phone in America would hammer that impressive margin down to just over 46%.
That's a colossal advantage for Apple, and it's sent Pacific-Ocean-sized profits to shareholders during the tech company's ascent to the largest corporation of all time. Without labor from China, investors never would have experienced that same financial windfall that arose with Apple's climb. Shutting down the globalist policies that promote international trade would suck that financial life out of the markets and everyday investors.
Chinese domestic growth helps corporations and their shareholders just as much. Take China's industrials sector: American powerhouses Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT ) and General Electric (NYSE: GE ) have stepped up efforts in the Asian nation, investing heavily in coal mining thanks to the nation's swelling energy demands. Automakers Ford (NYSE: F ) and General Motors (NYSE: GM ) have similarly deployed huge resources to increase their presence in China, compensating for losses in Europe and giving hope to their shareholders.
Tomorrow's cooperative economy
These examples just scratch the surface of China's many positive effects on the American economy and investors. Americans should eagerly await further Chinese economic growth that will fuel their financial dreams, not cry foul in a shortsighted battle of GDPs that only hurts everyone's growth.
Certainly, friction will arise between the United States and China. Political battles will be waged; populist phrases decrying China's growth will be slung. Investors need to know that China's growth isn't to be feared, however. Indeed, without it, Americans would face a drastically different future without many of the amazing opportunities they face today. The U.S. should cheer on China's rise and work to grow hand-in-hand, not condemn it out of petty partisanship. It's time to look forward to a globalist future.
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Why do you go on violent rage tangents when U.S.A is exposed for the horrible nation they are?
China has done bad things, no way are they immune to rights violations, I don't think anyone is arguing this. U.S.A has just been far worse when it comes to third world exploitation , violation of international laws, slavery of it's own citizens, etc the list is unending and has been a fact since the country's inception. You could make a list of the horrible things China does and I can't make one twice as long about the U.S ..
How Canada helped make Honduras the violence and impunity capital of the world
BY GRAHAME RUSSELL
There is no end in sight to violence and repression in Honduras. There is no end in sight to the impunity and corruption with which the powerful economic, military and political sectors act.
There is also no end in sight to American and Canadian governments and businesses maintaining political, economic and military relations with the Honduras, empowering and legitimizing the regime. American and Canadian businesses and investors are, in effect, benefiting from the repression, violence, corruption and impunity.
A human rights and security abyss
Since the U.S. and Canadian endorsed military coup of June 28, 2009, that ousted the democratically elected government, hundreds of pro-democracy activists have been killed by the State or death squads. Honduras has become known as:
• the http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/01/20/136474/crime-booms-as-central-americans.html" rel="nofollow">murder capital of the world
• a http://tlhrc.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1235" rel="nofollow">journalist killing capital of the world
• an LGBT killing capital of the world
• an http://vimeo.com/14106974; http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7979">inmate killing capital of the world
* a lawyer killing capital of the world
In January 2012, the Miami Herald published an editorial, 'Central America's free-fire zone.'
"[Honduras] is quickly turning into a disaster zone … To make matters worse in Honduras, there are indications that elements of the U.S.-backed government are complicit in the violence and criminality … The murder rate of 82.1 per 100,000 residents … gives Honduras the highest homicide rate in the world."
On January 27, 2012, the New York Times published an op-ed piece, 'In Honduras, a mess made in the U.S.' Dana Frank writes:
"It's time to acknowledge the foreign policy disaster that American support for the Porfirio Lobo administration in Honduras has become. Ever since the June 28, 2009, coup … the country has been descending deeper into a human rights and security abyss. That abyss is in good part the State Department’s making … According to the United Nations, it now has the world's highest murder rate, and San Pedro Sula, its second city, is more dangerous than Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a center for drug cartel violence. Much of the press in the United States has attributed this violence solely to drug trafficking and gangs. But the coup was what threw open the doors to a huge increase in drug trafficking and violence, and it unleashed a continuing wave of state-sponsored repression."
This situation of repression and violence has gotten even worse. On May 11, 2012, a U.S. DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) raid in the Ahuas community of north-east Honduras left at least four innocent people dead, including two pregnant women; many more were wounded.
Empowering and legitimizing the illegitimate
While the United States receives most attention regarding its support for the military backed government of Honduras, Canada has played a major role in empowering and legitimizing the regime.
Canada and the U.S. are the only governments that deemed 'fair and valid' the violent, illegitimate post-military coup elections in November 2009. Canada and the U.S. are the only governments to have maintained full political relations with the military-backed regime. Since the coup, both countries -- particularly Canada -- have even expanded business dealings in Honduras.
In August 2011, Canadian Prime Minister Harper became the first foreign leader to actually visit Honduras since the military coup. (Most governments in Latin America today still do not have full political and economic relations with the military-backed regime).
Leading a delegation of politicians and business executives, Prime Minister Harper signed a "free trade" agreement with the regime that gave international credibility to the regime and that further entrenches the rights of Canadian maquiladora (sweat-shop), tourism and mining businesses and investors in Honduras.
Dark tunnel of violence and repression
There is no light at the end of Honduras' tunnel of violence and repression, corruption and impunity. While the roots of all this go back at least through the U.S.-backed militarism and repression of the 1970s, 80s and early 90s, there is no doubt that since the 2009 coup, violence and repression have again returned to all time high levels.
North Americans must pressure and keep on pressuring our elected politicians and government officials. Public pressure on and shaming of North American governments and businesses is vital if we are to stop empowering and 'legitimizing' the illegitimate Honduran regime.
It is equally important to support (with funds, human rights accompaniment, solidarity delegations, etc.) civil society groups in Honduras -- many of which are members of the National Resistance Front -- that are courageously struggling to denounce the abuses and human rights violations, all the while working to restore their democratic order and to re-found the State and society.
2013 presidential elections
Despite this situation, there is a chance for positive political change in 2013. The wife of the militarily ousted President Zelaya has been chosen as leader of a new political party named LIBRE.
Whereas many Hondurans, now in the National Resistance Front, were not Zelaya supporters before the coup, they have been moved by the dignified and courageous positions that both Mel Zelaya and his wife Xiomara have taken since the day of the coup.
The 2013 presidential elections will pit corrupted pro-coup, pro-oligarchy parties (likely to be backed openly or indirectly by the U.S. and Canada) against the LIBRE party that has grown out of civil society's courageous opposition to the military coup and on-going repression and out of the desire of a vast majority of Honduran people to re-found their state and society and restore a truly democratic order.
LIBRE would easily win truly democratic elections, given the chance. However, these elections will undoubtedly be characterized by electoral corruption and threats and repression against people aligned with the LIBRE party.
This is at once a struggle for democracy and human rights in Honduras and across Latin America. It is also, deeply, a struggle for North Americans to hold our governments, companies and investors to account for 'legitimizing' the illegitimate, for empowering a repressive and undemocratic regime.
BY GRAHAME RUSSELL
There is no end in sight to violence and repression in Honduras. There is no end in sight to the impunity and corruption with which the powerful economic, military and political sectors act.
There is also no end in sight to American and Canadian governments and businesses maintaining political, economic and military relations with the Honduras, empowering and legitimizing the regime. American and Canadian businesses and investors are, in effect, benefiting from the repression, violence, corruption and impunity.
A human rights and security abyss
Since the U.S. and Canadian endorsed military coup of June 28, 2009, that ousted the democratically elected government, hundreds of pro-democracy activists have been killed by the State or death squads. Honduras has become known as:
• the http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/01/20/136474/crime-booms-as-central-americans.html" rel="nofollow">murder capital of the world
• a http://tlhrc.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1235" rel="nofollow">journalist killing capital of the world
• an LGBT killing capital of the world
• an http://vimeo.com/14106974; http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7979">inmate killing capital of the world
* a lawyer killing capital of the world
In January 2012, the Miami Herald published an editorial, 'Central America's free-fire zone.'
"[Honduras] is quickly turning into a disaster zone … To make matters worse in Honduras, there are indications that elements of the U.S.-backed government are complicit in the violence and criminality … The murder rate of 82.1 per 100,000 residents … gives Honduras the highest homicide rate in the world."
On January 27, 2012, the New York Times published an op-ed piece, 'In Honduras, a mess made in the U.S.' Dana Frank writes:
"It's time to acknowledge the foreign policy disaster that American support for the Porfirio Lobo administration in Honduras has become. Ever since the June 28, 2009, coup … the country has been descending deeper into a human rights and security abyss. That abyss is in good part the State Department’s making … According to the United Nations, it now has the world's highest murder rate, and San Pedro Sula, its second city, is more dangerous than Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a center for drug cartel violence. Much of the press in the United States has attributed this violence solely to drug trafficking and gangs. But the coup was what threw open the doors to a huge increase in drug trafficking and violence, and it unleashed a continuing wave of state-sponsored repression."
This situation of repression and violence has gotten even worse. On May 11, 2012, a U.S. DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) raid in the Ahuas community of north-east Honduras left at least four innocent people dead, including two pregnant women; many more were wounded.
Empowering and legitimizing the illegitimate
While the United States receives most attention regarding its support for the military backed government of Honduras, Canada has played a major role in empowering and legitimizing the regime.
Canada and the U.S. are the only governments that deemed 'fair and valid' the violent, illegitimate post-military coup elections in November 2009. Canada and the U.S. are the only governments to have maintained full political relations with the military-backed regime. Since the coup, both countries -- particularly Canada -- have even expanded business dealings in Honduras.
In August 2011, Canadian Prime Minister Harper became the first foreign leader to actually visit Honduras since the military coup. (Most governments in Latin America today still do not have full political and economic relations with the military-backed regime).
Leading a delegation of politicians and business executives, Prime Minister Harper signed a "free trade" agreement with the regime that gave international credibility to the regime and that further entrenches the rights of Canadian maquiladora (sweat-shop), tourism and mining businesses and investors in Honduras.
Dark tunnel of violence and repression
There is no light at the end of Honduras' tunnel of violence and repression, corruption and impunity. While the roots of all this go back at least through the U.S.-backed militarism and repression of the 1970s, 80s and early 90s, there is no doubt that since the 2009 coup, violence and repression have again returned to all time high levels.
North Americans must pressure and keep on pressuring our elected politicians and government officials. Public pressure on and shaming of North American governments and businesses is vital if we are to stop empowering and 'legitimizing' the illegitimate Honduran regime.
It is equally important to support (with funds, human rights accompaniment, solidarity delegations, etc.) civil society groups in Honduras -- many of which are members of the National Resistance Front -- that are courageously struggling to denounce the abuses and human rights violations, all the while working to restore their democratic order and to re-found the State and society.
2013 presidential elections
Despite this situation, there is a chance for positive political change in 2013. The wife of the militarily ousted President Zelaya has been chosen as leader of a new political party named LIBRE.
Whereas many Hondurans, now in the National Resistance Front, were not Zelaya supporters before the coup, they have been moved by the dignified and courageous positions that both Mel Zelaya and his wife Xiomara have taken since the day of the coup.
The 2013 presidential elections will pit corrupted pro-coup, pro-oligarchy parties (likely to be backed openly or indirectly by the U.S. and Canada) against the LIBRE party that has grown out of civil society's courageous opposition to the military coup and on-going repression and out of the desire of a vast majority of Honduran people to re-found their state and society and restore a truly democratic order.
LIBRE would easily win truly democratic elections, given the chance. However, these elections will undoubtedly be characterized by electoral corruption and threats and repression against people aligned with the LIBRE party.
This is at once a struggle for democracy and human rights in Honduras and across Latin America. It is also, deeply, a struggle for North Americans to hold our governments, companies and investors to account for 'legitimizing' the illegitimate, for empowering a repressive and undemocratic regime.
Sure we have hunger strikes and some of our prisons are pretty crappy too. But we haven't gone down the prison for profit route yet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
ES is correct that even though Canada doesn't have Gitmo, we were complicit in torture.
Canada complicit in torture of innocent Afghans, diplomat says - The Globe and Mail
The US isn't as bad as China by far. But the US of today isn't the shining example it used to be. Most people used to be able to criticize the US government without any fear, but that isn't so true these days.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/b...aptops-and-phones.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hpw&
Admittedly, missing your flight and having to go to court to get your laptop back is still better than being dead, but it is a far cry from the real freedom of speech that the US used to enjoy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/b...aptops-and-phones.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hpw&
Admittedly, missing your flight and having to go to court to get your laptop back is still better than being dead, but it is a far cry from the real freedom of speech that the US used to enjoy.
Oh good. What exactly is the American phenomena? I eagerly await.
Oh do tell how we enslave our own citizens.
Of course the list will be fabricated and a figment of your imagination as noted in your above post.
Personally, I couldn't give two hoots about which country is worse than another. Offenses against humans are offenses against humans and guilty is guilty.