"China's human rights policy has room for improvement." A little bit of an understatement, me thinks. Mr. Hu Jia, who is now serving 3 years in jail for "inciting subversion of state power" (i.e. speaking out and having too many opinions) certainly believed that China's human rights policy had major room for improvements. (http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/chinese-activist-gets-ja...) Whenever anyone makes rather controversal and thoughtless statements about a country (i.e. Mr. Cafferty's Imus moment) people always seem to become quickly irrational about things and start to look for major controversy where it does not need to be. There is no conspiracy to discredit China by CNN, no matter what the "impartial" people at "ANTI-cnn.com" have to say. That is just foolish reactionism. The other fallback reaction I find that people commonly display is to give people a pass on their own mistakes by stating that others have done the same thing (i.e. The US has horrible human rights abuses in Guantanamo and so Chinese policy is fine), or that no one has a right to comment who is not from the region because they cannot understand the unique cultural elements present in that environment (i.e. Western Bias). These arguments are crap. Simple crap that is sometimes rolled in "academic" ego and false sensitivity. Human rights are the same everywhere, because culture does not change the fact that people who are being jailed in China, waterboarded in the US, or starved in Africa are still human. People have a right to be free from government control, free to worship a religion of their choice (or not to), free to say whatever they want about anyone else (or country), and free to point out where a country or culture has faults in whatever mean and uncomfortable way that they want to. China has major faults that have been expressed as major crimes against the common dignity of mankind. The United States, Kenya, Australia and many others have done this also (for a good list of everyones' go to amnesty.org). We must learn to speak of the problems of countries without care about our own personal place of origin. Crimes committed by any country must be attacked and forcefully brought to justice by the people of the world. Nationalism is the enemy of the global advancement of freedom.