China hits back at critics of rights record
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China hit back on Tuesday at critics of its human rights record, saying the world was using the Olympics, which Beijing will host in August, as an excuse to make a villain out of its government.
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The Netherlands irked Olympics host China on Thursday by going ahead with a discussion of the country's human rights record and the Games, despite a warning by the Chinese ambassador that the debate was offensive.
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China defended its record as a member of the World Trade Organization on Monday, five years after joining the global trade arbiter and days before talks with U.S. officials who have said China is not pulling its weight.
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The Chinese government has drawn heavy criticism by two US business groups urging China to crack down on its growing piracy market and focus on protecting intellectual property rights in the country.
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China accused the United States of hypocrisy on Thursday in its annual response to Washington's criticism of Beijing's human rights record, saying it had no right to blacken the name of other countries.
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China's government on Tuesday stepped up controls on land uses in a new effort to cool off an economic boom and threatened to punish local officials who fail to stop improper sales, a state news agency reported.
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China on Tuesday lashed out a US decision to limit imports of socks made in China, saying China will &quot;retain the right to take further actions&quot; within the World Trade Organization
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An India-based human rights watchdog has denounced China for human rights abuses in Tibet last year and predicted that religious repression would get worse in 2007.
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China's human rights record should be properly addressed at this week's meeting of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations in Germany, an exile group said on Tuesday.
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Chinese officials have denied that criticism of US President George W. Bush published in state media Monday reflected the official government position.
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Human rights defenders face arrest and  torture in China, and the European Union should raise the issue  at a summit with Beijing's leaders this week, Amnesty  International said in a new report Monday.
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Taiwan's prime minister defends a controversial set of history textbooks which have angered China.
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China hits back at the US over calls for greater transparency in Beijing's military spending.
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Chinese premier Wen Jiabao's grand tour of Europe this week is underscoring how the opportunities presented by the "super-market" that is China's billion people may be trumping the continent's long-standing concerns about human rights.
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China's battle against intellectual property rights piracy will take "generations", a senior official said on Thursday, but added the main victims were Chinese and other countries should stop politicizing the issue.
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More than 180 Chinese dissidents and rights activists have signed a letter urging the International Olympic Committee to press China to improve its human rights record ahead of the 2008 Beijing Summer Games.
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By Stephen Foley  The American internet company Yahoo! has defended its record on human rights in China, and said it was asking the US government to challenge censorship in the communist country.