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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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China's success in politicizing criticism of its human rights record means that no chair of UNCHR would be prepared to accommodate such a request without sponsorship by a Commission member.
Will foreign trade improve China's human rights and environmental records?
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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China's need to attract oil and gas investors means it will keep trying to quash separatists in Xinjiang despite criticisms of human-rights abuses.
But China's rule over Tibet has grown increasingly repressive ever since President Clinton delinked trade and human rights from China's Most Favored Nation trading status in May 1994.
Opponents say that China's record of human rights abuses, use of forced labor, and violations of past trade agreements means that it has not yet earned permanent free trade relations.
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Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer
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Of course, China's abysmal human rights record does make Beijing a difficult choice for the IOC to defend.
The report stated that China's human rights record had "deteriorated markedly.
China's human rights record is blemished at best.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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Also, while Americans do want to take a clear stand against China's human rights violations, they do not want to behave in a punitive or antagonizing fashion and do not want to go so far as to cut off all trade.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Polls which clarify that China's joining the WTO would result in greater trade without concessions from China on human rights elicit opposition ranging from a strong plurality to a strong majority.
Polls that clarify that China's joining the WTO would result in greater trade without concessions from China on human rights elicit opposition ranging from a strong plurality to a strong majority.
China's controversial "one child" policy continues to result in serious human rights violations 20 years after it became law.
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