Worldwide students say Chinese president is ‘cute’

Experts on U.S.-China relations have highly commented on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech in Seattle, saying Xi’s ongoing state visit to the United States ushers in a great opportunity for the two sides to expand areas of cooperation.

As China has boomed over the past generation – thanks to economic liberalization by its communist regime – it has yielded huge profits for USA businesses.

The ministry said Kuang had been a fugitive from Chinese justice for 14 years and, upon her return, would face an investigation by Guangdong police on graft and bribery charges. Many are being held without access to family, friends, legal representation, or any other semblance of due process under the law. However, close cooperation on these issues will not guarantee the peaceful resolution of the disputes between them, such as the wrestling over maritime and cyber issues and the inevitable scramble for financial and economic influence, all of which can be reduced to the redistribution of power and reset of worldwide orders or norms. “The U.S.is in an excellent position to make the case that better human rights protections are not just about defending the activist community in China“.

Among those who did attend Wednesday were Lu Jun, a prominent social campaigner; Zhang Huixin, the daughter of a jailed pastor; and Jewher Ilham, the daughter of a well-known Uighur minority scholar who was convicted past year of inciting separatism and sentenced to life in prison. He and his wife were beaten at random. Wang Yang, an employee from the People’s Daily, confirmed that the organization had produced the video. Xi responded with a lecture, using a Chinese proverb to suggest the problem rested not with Chinese authorities but the news outlets themselves.

“The U.S.is not short of entry points to discuss human rights with China“, said Sophie Richardson of Human Rights Watch.

Last year, the United States shipped $24 billion worth of agriculture products to China, and $14 billion of that were soy exports.

It is no mystery why the Chinese authorities are launching this assault.

The recent slowdown in China’s economy and stock market serves to intensify the government’s anxiety.

While a cynic might say that propaganda videos are always bad, it’s more of a surprise when you compare it to the other video released in the same time, “When China Met Carolina”. The four lost their appeals in 2013.

It is vital that political and civil society leaders in the West stand with China’s noble human rights defenders. Following a huge military parade in Beijing to mark the defeat of Japan in World War II, the People’s Daily published an article on the front page of its website entitled “US blogger: The parade shows President Xi is a true world class leader”.

China respects the worldwide business practice of non-discrimination and has fulfilled its national treatment and other commitments upon WTO accession, Xi said.

China’s rights record has the potential, however, to grab attention at U.S.-China summits. “Dada’s USA trip is highly important – it’s gao [highbrow], da [grand], shang [superior]”, it says.

Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese human rights attorney, is founder of the Chen Guangcheng Foundation and author of The Barefoot Lawyer. Katrina Lantos Swett is president of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice.