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Blame It on Yourselves.(U.N. Human Rights Commission rejects United States)(Brief Article)
Who cost the United States its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission in the recent secret vote? Theories abound. Was there a European Judas- -or three, or five? Is the world tired of being bullied by U.S. strong- arm human-rights tactics? Or did China help bring the Bush administration down to earth? The United States "deserves the defeat" for arrogance and "imposing its human-rights standards on others," Beijing gloated.
During the spy-plane affair last month, China's President Jiang Zemin puzzled observers by decamping to Latin America: Cuba, Venezuela, Uruguay, Brazil, ...
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