USA Today quotes Susan Shirk
Shirk says the Chinese "are quite anxious and insecure about their ability to maintain power"
02/19/2010
Calum MacLeod,
USA Today
BEIJING — Activists say they are hopeful that a visit to the White House today by Tibet's spiritual leader signals a change in President Obama's foreign policy toward China and its abysmal record on human rights.
"I have been disappointed in Obama as he has been too weak in his public expressions on China's human rights situation," Beijing lawyer Jiang Tianyong said.
"He hoped that a new attitude and approach to dialogue would produce results," Jiang said. "Now he must adjust his position."
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Susan Shirk is the Ho Miu Lam Endowed Chair in China and Pacific Relations.
