Volume 38, Number 3 · January 31, 1991
Brutality in China
By Merle Goldman
At the same time that President Bush is speaking up against Saddam Hussein's human rights atrocities, he is appeasing China's octogenarian leaders on the very same issue. In order to persuade China to cooperate in the United Nations actions against Iraq and on Cambodia, China's foreign minister was invited to Washington in November and a vice-minister of trade was invited in December 1990. The United States has acquiesced in the World Bank's renewal of loans to China Except for the international ban on military shipments to China, the US, its European allies, and Japan have returned to business as usual with China just a little over a year after the June 4, 1989, crackdown.
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