they only bring out the good china for visitors

also from csm, a foreign policy pop quiz:

What did the State Department do as a result of (China's history of human rights abuses)? If you guessed "It removed China from its list of the world's worst human rights violators," you're right! Congratulations! You've won a trip to the gulag of your choice!

Sure, the top ten offenders could give China a run for its money. After all (those countries) have nothing much to be proud of in the human rights arena. But with a population of 1.3 billion, China can trounce on more human rights in an afternoon than its competitors can falsely imprison, torture or just plain murder in a month of Sundays.

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Before we go, let's do a little exercise in civics with the top ten (human rights violating countries):

• North Korea, Communist dictatorship
• Myanmar, Communist junta
• Iran, Islamist theocracy
• Syria, Islamist dictatorship
• Zimbabwe, Socialist dictatorship
• Cuba, Communist dictatorship
• Belarus, Soviet anachronism, Communist style
• Uzbekistan, Soviet anachronism, Islamist style
• Eritrea, Islamist dictatorship
• Sudan, Islamist theocratic dictatorship

Gee, not a democratic nation, Judeo-Christian or otherwise, among them. What have we learned, class?