its laws and regulations to control an increasing number of facets of daily life, especially the Internet and cell phones, and in suppressing independent expression of all forms: religious expression, petitioners, and the media.
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) has released its 2010 annual report, detailing troubling developments beginning in November 2009. The report notes the increasingly harsh repression of the legal profession that has implications for human rights defenders and those engaged in business in China.
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The regime introduced new rhetoric on its compliance with international human rights standards that is likely to impede U.S.-China dialogue. The communist regime has become emboldened, saying that its Internet policies are in line with international law.
China’s regime has developed another tool to control dissent by increasingly threatening to ban human rights defenders and advocates critical of the regime from traveling out of the country. The regime regards such travel as a “state security” threat or would “cause a major loss to national interest.”
