Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

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How to Integrate Human Rights into U.S.-China Relations

December 2012

Human Rights First

Abstract

When to press China’s leadership on human rights, how hard, and with what tools has been an ever-changing calculation, as successive U.S. administrations have tried to balance America’s strategic and economic interests in the expanding U.S.-China relationship with America’s leadership as an advocate for and protector of universal rights and freedoms.