Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has angered human rights activists by her statements de-emphasizing the role of human rights in dealings with other nations, and most particularly, China.
This is very disappointing, as China is well known as one of the leading violators of human rights. It indicates how much the former Bush Administration harmed our economy by greatly expanding trade with China, and allowing that nation the ability to lend our country so much money that they are our leading creditor, therefore undermining our ability to promote morality and ethics in foreign policy.
An alarm bell is ringing loudly, that due to our economic crisis, the Obama Administration seems to be on a course of abandoning a very important principle–that we should be the leaders in promoting or restoring a sense of ethics and morality in our dealings with the outside world.
It is hoped that President Obama will reconsider this very important issue as he works on reshaping our relationship with the world’s nations!