I don't think Beijing is overly concerned. After all, human rights had a much more prominent role in U.S.-China relations in the early 1990s.
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ELIZABETH ECONOMY I think President Bush was speaking to an audience at home and to other countries in the region that...
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CHARLES NELSON This has played an irreplaceable important role in promoting the steady development of relations bet...
WANG JIARUI My stance has consistently been that the firmer and closer that U.S.-Japan relations are, the more p...
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ZHANG QIYUE The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are pl...
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DANIEL DAE KIM This human rights violation is very unique. It does not happen in any other country, only in China,
HARRY WU Being overly concerned about going in the water or taking a walk in the woods, and less concerned ab...
DAVID ROPEIK Bottom line, China is moving in the direction we want it to move in. There are more human rights tod...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN China-U.S. relations have gone beyond the era when breakthroughs could only be achieved through a su...
YUAN PENG The unwarranted accusations by the U.S. against China under the pretext of so-called human rights qu...
ZHANG QIYUE Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
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CHARLES NELSON They all hope that the council will play its due role, and more effectively enhance all human rights...
ZHANG YISHAN We do acknowledge that we have deficiencies in the area of human rights, but at the same time we wou...
ZHU RONGJI I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happene...
ERIC MCCORMACK I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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"That expression has never made sense to m...
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FRANK LU China is becoming ever more socially unstable. To maintain social stability, Beijing will certainly ...
FRANK LU After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countr...
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WANDA TSENG We plan to report more and better about China and expand the Beijing Branch.
EZZAT SHAHROUR I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Ca...
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KASKADE I think the Research Coast is more prominent this year.
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EVAN OSNOS America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relat...
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SONG HYE-KYO The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.
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NAOTO KAN This is something we all know, that a way of dealing with human-rights activists is to claim they ha...
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BRIAN INGHAM It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEXANDER SOLZEHNITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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ALAN COLMAN It is wonderful to see how the Olympic spirit is being spread beyond Beijing into other areas in Chi...
HEIN VERBRUGGEN China is a developing country with a huge population, and also a developing country in a crucial sta...
HU JINTAO the human rights situation in China is suddenly going to turn around overnight...but it will be an i...
ALEX NEVE One-hundred billion is a big number but that's all it is. I don't pay much attention to bragging rig...
GUS SAUTER When the U.S. and other Western powers commit such a gross violation of human rights, it further wea...
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SAMUEL J. PALMISANO The issue of human rights is a national security issue for us and while we have lots of issues to ad...
JAY LEFKOWITZ Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The point is not to lecture. We approach this from the premise that U.S.-China relations are good an...
MIKE GREEN There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will, in the end, be...
LIU XIAOBO There is no evidence the prevalence of this organism has changed at all since we began studying it i...
GARY WEBER I think the U.S. was so insular in the 1990s, and I don't know if it was 9/11, but there was somethi...
GEOFFREY GILMORE There is some self-interest in Europe maintaining good relations with China.
BEN SIMPFENDORFER I think ageing demographics is a bigger issue in China than people think. And the problems it create...
STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER The U.N. by contrast is sterile, overly concerned with protocol, overly formal, filled with set-piec...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE I think that is pretty dang good. This makes Route 66 the best road trip in the U.S. That's bragging...
JOHN WEISS I believe the U.S. has been way too silent on the brutality, the lack of human rights in the Muslim ...
RON JOHNSON As I am today, I was concerned about human rights, and I was concerned about the well-being of the w...
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LI YUFU I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
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