{"id":28703,"date":"2012-07-22T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=28703 "},"modified":"2012-07-22T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T17:07:00","slug":"28703-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=28703","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Discussions to be Held between US and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">China says it will hold a new round of human rights talks with the United States next week.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">The exchanges have become a regular fixture in China-US relations along with recurring economic and policy dialogues. But they haven&#8217;t produced any significant narrowing of differences on human rights.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">After talks in April last year, a U.S. envoy described the meetings as respectful but unproductive.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">A duty officer with the Foreign Ministry said Friday that the two-day talks would begin Monday in Washington, D.C.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">Beijing defines human rights primarily in terms of improving living conditions for its 1.3 billion people. It maintains strict controls over free speech, religion, and political activity &#8212; restrictions that the U.S. considers human rights violations.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">Beijing says Washington&#8217;s criticisms of China&#8217;s human rights record amount to meddling.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; text-align: -webkit-left; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; \">Read&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/china-us-hold-round-human-rights-talks-16817820#.UAmp-7RSSRN\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: #ffffff; \"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; \">original article<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; text-align: -webkit-left; font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; \">.<\/span><span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-left; background-color: #ffffff; \">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week the two nations will again meet to hold talks on the sensitive issue of human rights. &amp;nbsp;The two often hold such talks, but rarely make much headway in the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}