http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-02/28/c_133150579.htmIssues raised in the White Paper:
- increases in violent crime, especially mass shootings
- NSA Surveillance problems and other issues with law enforcement
- widespread use of solitary confinement and high incarceration rate
- high unemployment and widespread homelessness
- widespread labor abuses in agriculture
- drone strikes causing civilian deaths
- not ratifying core UN human rights conventions: Convention on Rights of the Child, Convention on Rights of the Disabled, etc.
- Political power coalescing into the hands of wealthy elites
- erosion of labor union authority and leverage
- widespread racial discrimination in the criminal justice system
- systematic gender discrimination in employment opportunities
- neglect of children in privatized foster care systems
- sexual assault rampant throughout the armed forces
- child laborers working in unsafe conditions in the agriculture industry
- torture of foreign terrorism suspects in secret extraterritorial prisons
Thoughts? Are these problems not as bad as they sound? Can we criticize human rights abuses abroad without being hypocritical? Is our inaction on these issues limiting our foreign policy?
