Clinton has her priotities on China challenged

• Clinton Criticized for Not Trying to Force China's Hand - washingtonpost.com

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BEIJING, Feb. 20 -- Human rights violations by China cannot block the possibility of significant cooperation between Washington and Beijing on the global economic crisis, climate change and security threats such as North Korea's nuclear program, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday.

Amnesty International and a pro-Tibet group voiced shock after Hillary Clinton vowed not to let human rights concerns hinder cooperation with China.  If this new world order is to emerge, new approaches must be taken in these matters. 

Has Australia - or any other country for that matter - raised America's torture of prisoners at Abu Grabe as a pre-curser to signing up trade agreements between agreer countries?  Not likely!   For Hilary Clinton to raise human rights issues in her diplomatic trip through Asia would be a bit like calling the kettle black. - post by Greg Naylor