RSSCritics say Obama missed chance in China
The Washington Times | November 17, 2009
SHANGHAI | Gently wading into one of the most sensitive topics of his eight-day Asian tour, President Obama Monday raised the issue of China’s human rights and the value of free expression, in part by citing the United States’ own checkered civil rights history. The muted address to about 500 university students here left Mr. Obama with just two days in Beijing to either deliver a more forceful message or establish a new, markedly softer approach to China’s suppression of political dissent. “We do not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation,” Mr. Obama said. “But …
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