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China: Economic Growth isn’t Expanding Freedoms

Brencis Wrote: Aug 24, 2010 4:05 PM

...and worse still China's growing status in the world is giving despots in other nations renewed courage and vigour. So the likes of Al-bashir in Sudan or Mugabe in Zimbabwe feel no pressure to change because they reach economic agreements, with no moral / ethical pre-conditions, with China. The freedoms we took for granted in the last decade of the last century will die in most countries before 2050.

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China: Economic Growth isn’t Expanding Freedoms

While enjoying the final few weeks of summer, many Americans may have missed the news that China just passed Japan. Its economy now ranks second in the world, trailing only our own.

Great news for Beijing, but it sparks a less welcome question: Economic success aside, is the human rights situation in China improving? The sad answer: Not at all.

In 2009, “security forces reportedly committed arbitrary or unlawful killings,” says one comprehensive report. “Kidnapping and buying and selling children for adoption increased over the past several years, particularly in poor rural areas.” Further, “Female infanticide, sex-selective abortions, and the abandonment...

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