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Annual human rights tiff

From China Daily: "We urge the US to examine its own human rights problems and not use human rights as an excuse or publish human rights reports in order to interfere with others' internal affairs," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told a regular... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Fri, Feb 27 2009

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