中国必须改善人权记录: 克林顿

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美国务卿批评中国西藏政策. VOA Chinese, Nov 11, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... t-us-133705228.html
(中国必须改善人权记录; 克林顿还对中国盲人人权活动人士陈光诚的处境表示担忧)

Note:
(a) The report cites
Hillary Rodham Clinton, America's Pacific Century. East-West Center (Honolulu, HI), Nov 10, 2011.
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2011/11/176999.htm
("We have made very clear our serious concerns about China’s record on human rights. When we see reports of lawyers, artists, and others who are detained or disappeared, the United States speaks up both publicly and privately. We are alarmed by recent incidents in Tibet of young people lighting themselves on fire in desperate acts of protest, as well as the continued house arrest of the Chinese lawyer Chen Guangcheng. We continue to call on China to embrace a different path.")

This paragraph is the only mention of Tibet or Mr Chen in the speech.

(b) See also
Readout of Secretary Clinton's Bilateral Meetings with Chinese, Japanese, and Australian Foreign Ministers at APEC. US Department of State, Nov 10, 2011 (Special Briefing by Senior State Department Official, Office of the Spokesperson at Honolulu, HI).
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/11/177001.htm

Quote:

"QUESTION: The Secretary – in her speech today, she specifically mentioned couple of human rights issues in China, specifically the issue of the self-immolations in Tibet and (inaudible) Chen Guangcheng (inaudible) human rights lawyer. I’m wondering in the talks whether those issues also (inaudible) policy (inaudible).

"SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: Yeah. She raised those issues and others. It is Secretary Clinton's – and indeed, the U.S. Government’s – consistent policy to raise these issues directly with Chinese interlocutors. I think it would be fair to say that the Chinese interlocutors, Foreign Minister Yang, took onboard what she had to say. I expect we’ll have continuing conversations on these issues. But we’ve been very clear at what our expectations are in terms of improving a dialogue with Tibet and the appropriate Tibetan authorities and to try to address some of the issues that lead to the desperation underscoring these tragic immolations. And we raise individual cases regularly. That is one that we’ve raised most recently.

My comment: The "Senior State Department Official" is unnamed.