Human Rights Watch raps China. Meanwhile, Malta’s government pursues integration.
Reuters reports:
BEIJING (Reuters) – New York-based Human Rights Watch accused China on Tuesday of failing to embark upon political reforms which meet the people’s demands for real change and of pursuing anti-corruption activists despite its declared crackdown on graft.
“The Chinese government has responded to domestic and international pressure by announcing partial reforms on issues such as Re-education Through Labour and the one-child policy,” Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. “But the leadership has also embarked on a harsh crackdown on critics, while using hardline rhetoric to make clear they have no intention of liberalising the political system.”
Read the full article here: Human Rights Watch chides China for failing to push reform
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Or read it online:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/human-rights-watch-chides-china-failing-push-reform-112510305.html
Actually, it’s worse than that.
Look how David Mc Kenzie of CNN was roughed up by Chinese police yesterday, when trying to film the court – in a public space – while the activist’s trial was going on. He had his camera broken, and was bundled into a van at the very least. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/22/world/asia/china-activist-trial-media/
Absolutely shocking! And if Muscat were to have his way, we’d be back to the 1970s and 1980s … a’ la Chinese.
Yesterday the CNN and BBC reporters were manhandled for trying to report a political trial. Some thing similar happened in Malta on Sunday, using foul language.
Who cares for human rights? Look at all the money we could be raking in and at all these rich and fabulous people (half way down the article) who will be wanting to buy Maltese passports.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/chinas-epic-offshore-wealth-revealed-how-chinese-oligarchs-quietly-parked-4-trillion
Oh, yes, it would be wonderful to integrate with the Chinese, would it not, especially if the internet is government-controlled the way it is there.
See this shocking video of a Chinese Communist Party official here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-eifcRPOn4 , then see the full version on this link http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/22/videos-chinese-government_n_4643578.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009