China rejects Clinton’s human rights comments

Clinton,in an interview with Atlantic magazine this week which focused largely on recent turmoil in the Arab world,denounced China’s clampdown on dissent,saying Beijing was trying to stop the course of history.

“They cannot do it. But they’re going to hold it off as long as possible,” she said.

She used the term “disappeared” to refer to the arrest of some Chinese lawyers and artists.

Jiang said,”Mentioning China in the same breath as other countries in West Asia and North Africa where volatility and turmoil have occurred recently is inappropriate. Anyone who attempts to bring the Middle East turbulence into China and to change the development road that the Chinese people have chosen for themselves is on a fool’s errand.”

Da Wei,deputy director of the Institute of American Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations,said,”I’m not surprised by Hillary’s remarks,because she is a ‘free imperialist’ in the Democratic Party,who highly praises human rights and is prone to intervening in other countries.”

Zhou Qi,a senior researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) told state-run Global Times that Clinton’s remarks were “irresponsible” and “childish”.