China Evoking Memories Of Mao With Worsening Human Rights Abuses

(CNSNEWS) When the State Department recently released its 2018 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices" China figured prominently in its findingsbut not in a good way. The annual report issued March 13 shines a harsh spotlight on China and its various human rights abuses including religious persecution internment of Uighurs in re-education camps and increased surveillance of its citizens. Many assumed that Chinas rapid economic transformation would have led automatically to improvements in civil liberties and human rights. Instead China has become more oppressive.