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Enrique

(27,461 posts)
Thu May 3, 2012, 02:54 PM May 2012

Mitt Romney is type of person LEAST likely to stand up to China

on human rights.

All U.S. politicians are under immense pressure not to take any action against China regarding human rights. Even symbolic actions like attending the Nobel Prize ceremony of dissidents freaks them out.

Different types of American politicians stand up to that pressure to varying degrees, from stalwart commitment to human rights, to utter indifference. Mitt Romney is clearly at the extreme latter end of that spectrum. The people he cares about most are the people that are corporations. He even expressed admiration for China's ruthless pursuit of economic growth, at the expense of the Chinese people.

At the former end, is people like Nancy Pelosi. Not perfect, not 100% pure on China, but as good as American politicians get:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gZFrZk7E8PRzZgX9SIZnyMJlLLag

China 'scared to death' of Pelosi: leaked cable

(AFP) – Nov 29, 2010

WASHINGTON — China was "scared to death" over a visit by US Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is outspoken on human rights, and rejected her request to visit to Tibet, according to files leaked Monday.

A top diplomat at the US embassy in Beijing said he asked China to consider letting Pelosi go to Tibet during her May 2009 visit to China, according to a cable obtained by whistleblower site WikiLeaks.

Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei responded that China could not arrange the trip due to Pelosi's "tight schedule," according to the cable reprinted by Britain's Guardian newspaper.

The Chinese ambassador in Kazakhstan was blunter, telling his US counterpart over an expansive dinner that Beijing was "fearful" over Pelosi's visit.

"She had the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) scared to death on the eve of her visit," Ambassador Cheng Guoping was quoted as saying in the classified memo by US Ambassador Richard Hoagland.

(...)

Her visit last year came just a week before the 20th anniversary of China's crackdown on student protests in Tiananmen Square. On a previous trip, Pelosi unfurled a banner in Tiananmen Square in remembrance of those killed.



But Pelosi's last trip went off without incident as she mostly focused on cooperation between China and the United States in fighting climate change.


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Mitt Romney is type of person LEAST likely to stand up to China (Original Post) Enrique May 2012 OP
By the way...? kentuck May 2012 #1
Fuck Rmoney! He doesn't even have the balls to go head to head with Rachael M. OffWithTheirHeads May 2012 #2

kentuck

(110,950 posts)
1. By the way...?
Thu May 3, 2012, 02:57 PM
May 2012

Did he ever respond to those charges that he had all those foreign bank accounts? Are people supposed to forget about that??
 

OffWithTheirHeads

(10,337 posts)
2. Fuck Rmoney! He doesn't even have the balls to go head to head with Rachael M.
Thu May 3, 2012, 04:08 PM
May 2012

How the hell could he go up against China?

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