US lawmakers fear impact of China crackdown

Protesters hold photos of Chinese prominent artist Ai Weiwei
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US lawmakers and activists urged pressure on China to end its sweeping crackdown on dissent, fearing that authorities were trying to permanently narrow the boundaries of criticism.

Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee called a hearing to throw a spotlight on human rights in China, where authorities have rounded up dozens of lawyers, artists and other perceived critics.

"In recent months, the human rights situation in China has gone from abysmally bad to worse," said Representative Chris Smith, a longtime human rights advocate who led the hearing.

China hits back with report on U.S. human rights record

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China retorted the U.S. criticism on its human rights situation by publishing a report of the U.S. human rights record on Sunday.

Full Text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010
  
The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010 was released by the Information Office of China's State Council, or cabinet, in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2010 issued by the U.S. Department of State on April 8.

The U.S. reports are "full of distortions and accusations of the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions including China. However, the United States turned a blind eye to its own terrible human rights situation and seldom mentioned it," China's report said.

The United States has taken human rights as "a political instrument to defame other nations' image and seek its own strategic interests," the report said.

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US, China to hold economy meeting in May

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Top officials from the United States and China will meet in Washington early next month, the Treasury Department said Monday, as tensions between the two economic superpowers simmer.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will host Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan and State Councilor Dai Bingguo, amid continued tensions over debt, exports and the value of China's currency.

The Treasury Department has delayed the publication of a report that could lead to sanctions against Beijing until after the meeting, despite US lawmakers complaining that China is still manipulating its currency for trade advantage.

Communist China to "Bailout" Cartel Capitalism in West?

Howard Beale
Activist Post

Communist China, with all of its resources gained through slave labor and favorable trade agreements, has announced that it will bailout debt-weakened European nations with its vast foreign investment fund.

On the ground, China appears to have a very capitalistic system of production and consumerism.  However, at the political level, the essentially single-party state can move very quickly when seeking foreign investments. In other words, there is very little bureaucratic wrangling in decision making.

They seem to have a form of dictatorial anti-competition capitalism.  Based on its success in consolidating wealth and power globally, it appears to be the perfect fusion to the cartel-run capitalism in the West -- which it now seeks to prop up, or set up -- in Economic Hitman fashion.


In reality, it is all the same money, the same owners, and the same scheme.  The international cartels have gone into partnership with China for resource management, international trade, currency management and global banking. At the very least, their dependence upon each other has undoubtedly married their global interests.

The idea that China is a separate independent entity to be feared by Western governments seems to be manufactured to tap into the notion of patriotism when the time is appropriate to further artificially divide and conquer the sovereign populace.

The globalists deliberately shaped China's rise while maintaining that they are a not-so-friendly force to be reckoned with.  And China, well known as a massive military power, is currently free from military hegemonic entanglements in resource-rich nations like Iraq and Afghanistan.  Yet, they still find a way to acquire epic contracts for the resources in those countries and others where the West supposedly has military control.

When you strip out the labels of communism and capitalism, China looks an awful lot like a more obvious (or honest) American false two-party system that recently greased through thousands of pages of legislation in a so-called lame duck session.  In both, the multinational corporations can move very quickly to consolidate global business.

When you strip away the idea that they are different nations, the same corporations and international banks hold all the cards.  Finally, when you consider that nuclear- and space-based weapons have made the prospect of another World War almost farcical, any tension between the China and the West will likely be falsely created by these corporations for the final chapter of power consolidation that the media will trumpet.

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