A tale of two countries; Indonesia and China respond differently to pressure on rights
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Western countries have sharply criticized both Indonesia and China for their human rights abuses and each country has responded in very different ways. Indonesia and China both regard foreign pressure on human rights as interference in their internal affairs. Both countries established official human-rights organizations but Indonesia's appears to be functioning independent of the government and has made progress towards defending human rights. Foreign pressure is unlikely to bring about China because of the lack of a civil society in that country.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1996
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Time to halt human-rights war; West's annual effort to censure China in UN is counterproductive
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Western countries have failed to win support for a draft resolution in the United Nations Human Rights Commission that criticizes China for six years. The continued failure of this strategy and the widening margins of defeat suggest that a new approach is required. Persistence in attempting to censure China by this manner does not comfort human rights supporters and threatens to worsen relations between China and the West.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1996
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Tung is misreading Hong Kong
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Hong Kong Administrator Tung Chee Hwa's policies regarding civil liberties in Hong Kong seems to underestimate the populace's sentiments towards these liberties. Tung's Hong Kong civil liberties policy leans towards that of China, that of limiting freedom of expression and assembly.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1997
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