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Interview with Sinologist: Human Rights in China


very often western governments will try
to flatter the Chinese leadership when
they want to access the Chinese market
so they will accept all sorts of
compromises and sometimes they will use
pressure on the human rights agenda in
order to obtain some advantages from the
Chinese I think this is a very very bad
attitude jean-philippe Asia has garnered
years and years of knowledge about China
welcome to watchmojo.com i’m your host
layla and i asked this sign ologist his
opinion on how the international
community can best approach the
country’s uncertain human rights record
the key to success is to have a
consistent attitude towards China one of
the Western leaders has adopted a very
interesting position this is kevin rudd
Prime Minister of Australia right after
the Lhasa riots Kevin Rudd went for his
first trip to China he declared that he
wanted to be China’s Jung Yong Yong yo
means a real friend a real friend won’t
conceal his real feeling when something
shocks him he will say the truth Kevin
Rudd was praised in the renewable in the
people’s daily for his speech at beta he
talked about the riots in Lhasa and he
said that he didn’t agree with the way
the Chinese Communist Party had
repressed the riots in Lhasa that he
didn’t agree with the suppression of
cultural autonomy of the Tibetan people
but that he was favorable to the rise of
China that he thought that China should
exert an important power on the world
scene he agreed to develop economic
political and social relations between
Australia and China the trouble with
most of our leaders is that either that
criticized 100% the Chinese and opposed
the fact China is becoming a great power
and this is normal because it’s
1,000,000,000 and more inhabitants so
it’s absolutely logical but this they
won’t accept it the Chinese leaders will
always take advantage of
weaknesses which is absolutely normal so
they will try to use the contradictions
between the various countries and we
especially we Europeans are very good at
fighting together when we want to access
the Chinese market so the Chinese will
use the Germans against the French and
the French against the English and
things like that and unhappily the
Western powers are not able to present a
united front to concern themselves when
they discuss with China and very often
they change their attitude consistency
is something very very important
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