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Madeleine Albright journeyed to China for the first time since the Belgrade embassy bombing but barely mentioned the crackdown.
The WP , in a story about American-based Chinese political exiles, runs the following precis of China's recent human rights record: "After the Tiananmen Square crackdown, a decade of public political debate in China came to an end.
These are the latest steps in a crackdown on activists who have recently tried to form parties or unions, assist pro-democracy magazines, or run for office outside the Communist Party.
The Post story refers to Clinton's appeals in these appearances for the expansion of individual liberties and his polite but unambiguous condemnation of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, but then says he's spent far more time flattering Chinese audiences than challenging them.
But there is no real reciprocity of access, and we find ourselves hosting such dubious guests as generals who perpetrated the Tiananmen Square crackdown.