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Date: March 27, 2016
发布日：2016年3月27日
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VOA Connection (with Wei Jingsheng): China's CCTV Attacks on the US Human
Rights Record Are Laughable (Voice of America)
标题：VOA连线(魏京生)：中国央视攻击美国人权纪录，贻笑大方(美国之音)
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VOA
Connection (with Wei Jingsheng): China's CCTV Attacks on the US Human Rights
Record Are Laughable
Voice
of America -- China's Central Television recently aired a TV program
"Human Rights Record of 'the Human Rights Defender'." This mouthpiece of the Chinese
Communist Party claimed that the featured program presents the real human
rights situation in the United States "in detailed interviews, with a lot
of data, and expert interpretations". However, public opinion at home and abroad disapprove the
Chinese authorities attacking Western countries and their human rights records
just because China was angry at them.
Here,
we connect to Wei Jingsheng, the chairman of the Overseas Chinese Democracy
Coalition.
Voice
of America: Mr. Wei, Hello!
Wei
Jingsheng: Hello!
Voice
of America: Mr. Wei, why has China's CCTV taken this moment to attack the human
rights record of the United States in such a big way?
Wei
Jingsheng: I also watched that program.
The overall impression of the program is seems designed to fan up the
sensation in China. Some material
was taken out of context, then pieced together to make it sensational. Do the problems they described exist in
the USA? Indeed, they exist. For such a big country with so many
people, all kinds of situations can happen. But what I feel is that the Communist regime in China is
subject to strong pressure on human rights. Recently 12 countries include the USA together just
criticized Chinese human rights in the UN Human Rights Council. Therefore, like you said, the Communist
regime is defensive and angry. It
also engaged in national incitement to explain to the Chinese people that the
human rights situation in the United States is just as bad. The Chinese government has long been
accustomed to this; when you say that there is anything wrong with China, it
immediately says that it is wrong in the Western countries too. This has become a fixed pattern and a
promotional mode. However, many
people who have been to the United States can feel this argument of the
Communist regime is clearly not justified. For such a big country like United States, it is not immune
to these bad things. However, over
all, the fundamental principles of the USA are the protection of human
rights. When there are actions
that are in violation of human rights, they will be prosecuted
immediately. It is just the
opposite in China, where most violations of human rights are government
actions, under instructions from the central government, such as to suppress
petitioning by the masses, to arrest human rights lawyers, and so on. These acts are government actions that
cannot be entirely equated to human rights violation by certain individuals.
Voice
of America: Good. Mr. Wei just
mentioned that last week, 12 Western countries including the USA jointly
condemned China's human recent rights record, which resulted in the angry
reaction from the Communist regime.
Using the words of the Western media, it is an angry response due to
embarrassment. Mr. Wei, please
tell us about the situation when the 12 Western countries criticized China's
human rights situation.
Wei
Jingsheng: In fact, we all know the human rights situation in China has been
sustained as very poor for many years.
In the past, since the change of "the United Nations Commission on
Human Rights" to "the United Nations Human Rights Council" in
2006, it has been difficult for NGOs to go to the Council to organize events,
thus making it very difficult to organize some valid criticism. I think in terms of human rights
policy, the USA has recovered some.
On the one hand, they are now concerned about this problem. On the other hand, the recent human
rights situation in China has not only continued to be bad, but has further
deteriorated. The recent situation
is really very bad. Therefore,
many countries that have human rights as a basic national policy feel it is
intolerable anymore and have to stand up to criticize the human rights
condition in China.
Voice
of America: Good. One last
question, Mr. Wei. In recent
years, China's State Council Information Office also repeatedly published the
US human rights record to criticize the United States on the basis of excusing
its own deteriorating human rights situation, with no mean of improvement, by
keeping finding faults of the human rights situation in other countries. Mr. Wei, how do you view the argument
of the Chinese government?
Wei
Jingsheng: I think the Chinese government's own human rights work has been very
poor, and its basic principle is to abuse human rights, to repress the people,
and to maintain its own rule. In
this case, of course it will be self-defending, claiming the others are very
bad so they could also be bad.
This tone speaks for itself -- that it does not want to improve human
rights in China. It took some of
the unsatisfactory things of the others on human rights to defend itself. This gesture demonstrates that the
human rights situation in China does indeed need criticism from everyone.
Voice
of America: Good. We thank Mr. Wei
Jingsheng, chairman of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition, to accept our
interview in Washington DC.
Original
link of this interview:
http://www.voachinese.com/media/video/VOAWeishi-20160315-VOAConnects-cctv-on-us/3237171.html
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Overseas
Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A929-O258
中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A929-O258
Release
Date: March 27, 2016
发布日：2016年3月27日
Topic:
VOA Connection (with Wei Jingsheng): China's CCTV Attacks on the US Human
Rights Record Are Laughable (Voice of America)
标题：VOA连线(魏京生)：中国央视攻击美国人权纪录，贻笑大方(美国之音)
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VOA连线(魏京生)：中国央视攻击美国人权纪录，贻笑大方
美国之音 --
中国中央电视台日前播出了电视专题片《“人权卫士”的人权纪录》。这家中共喉舌称，这个专题片“以翔实的采访、大量的数据、专家的解读”呈现了美国真实的人权状况。不过海内外舆论对于中国当局以“恼羞成怒”的方式攻击西方国家人权的做法并不以为然。
下面，我们就连线中国民主运动海外联席会议主席魏京生。
美国之音：魏先生你好！
魏京生：你好！
美国之音：魏先生，中国央视为什么如此大张旗鼓地来制造这个声势，来攻击美国的人权记录呢？
魏京生： 我也看了那个片子了。那片子总体给人的感觉，就是一种煽情的片子。把一些材料断章取义，拼凑在一起来煽情。他们所描述的那些问题呢，你说在美国存在不存在，确实存在。那么大个国家，那么多人，各种情况都可能发生。但是我的感觉，中共可能是在人权方面受到了强大的压力，刚刚有在联合国的人权理事会的12个国家，在一起批评中国的人权。所以，中共就像你说的那样，恼羞成怒。反过来，他也搞一个东西来煽动，似乎是想向中国人民解释，美国人权状况一样很坏。中国政府很久以来都是这个习惯，你说中国有什么不好，他马上说，那跟西方国家也一样。这已经成了一个固定的模式了，一个宣传模式。但是，很多到过美国的人可以感觉到，中共这个说法是显然没有道理的。美国这么大个国家不出一点事情是不可能的，但是，总体来看，这个国家的基本原则是保障人权的。一有违反人权的事情，马上会受到处理。这在中国正好相反，是政府行为，从中央下指示，像打压上访的群众，抓捕维权律师，等等，这些行为，都是一种政府行为。这和某些人，个别人违反人权，是完全不能划等号的。
美国之音：好的。刚才魏先生提到，上个星期，美国等12个西方国家联名，谴责中国最近出现的人权记录不好的现状，这才引起了中共的恼羞成怒。用西方舆论的话来说，恼羞成怒的反应。请魏先生介绍一下，上个星期，美国等12个西方国家抨击中国人权状况的情况。
魏京生：其实，大家都知道，中国的人权状况，持续多少年来都是很差的，都是非常差的。过去，从06年以来，因为“联合国人权委员会”改成“联合国人权理事会”以后，NGO（非政府组织）就很难去那个地方去组织一些活动，很难组织起一些有效的批评。我觉得，美国在人权政策方面，现在有些恢复。这是一方面，他们现在开始关注这个问题了。另一方面，最近中国人权状况不但是持续很坏，而且是在持续很坏的前提下又进一步恶化，最近的状况确实非常糟糕。所以，很多国家，很多以人权为基本国策的国家，忍无可忍了，只好站出来批评。
美国之音：好。最后一个问题，魏先生，近年来，中国国务院新闻办也不止一次地发表了美国人权纪录，来批评美国在自身人权状况恶化的基础上，毫无反思改进之意，却对其它国家的人权状况评头论足。魏先生，你怎么看待中国政府的这种说法？
魏京生： 我想，中国政府自己的人权工作做得非常差，而且它的基本宗旨，就是以侵犯人权，镇压老百姓，来维持它自己的统治。在这种情况下，它当然要进行自卫，说别人也很坏很坏，所以我们也应该坏。这个口气本身就说明，它不想改善中国的人权。它拿别人在人权上的一些令人不满意的事情，来给自己做辩护，这种姿态本身就说明，中国的人权状况确实需要大家来批评。
美国之音：好的。我们感谢中国民主运动海外联席会议主席魏京生先生，在华盛顿接受我们的采访。
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