Helpful that you have produced this as a basis for dialogue. Should
like to discuss various points arising from the White Paper.
Recognise the progress you have made on feeding and clothing your population, but unclear why you believe this precludes giving them other fundamental freedoms, including individual political
freedom. As Mr Hurd told Zou Jiahua, no wish to see instability.
But our experience in rest of world is that change towards
democratic accountability inevitable.
Other developing countries have acknowledged that other needs.
are equally important and that expressing concern about human rights does not constitute interference in a country's internal affairs (eg
at Harare). (China has condemns apartheid and racism in other
countries (ie) accepts that in some circumstances interference from
outside is justified).
Note that White Paper endorses the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights as promoting purposes and principles of
UN Charter. Quite agree.
Does PRC intend to accede to this
covenant in near future?
White Paper states that court cases (except those involving state secrets, individual privacy or minors) should be public. Can you explain why foreign diplomats and journalists were barred from attending trials held earlier this year for those detained for the
actions in 1989?
White Paper (p. 29) says that on average 50,000 sentenced to punitive detention each year without public trial in the education-through-labour system. How is this consistent with claim that nobody is sent to labour camps or other forms of internal
without trial (p. 26)?
exile
White Paper also says that capital punishment is only applied to the "most heinous crimes" Why are so many people executed for
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