Dana Milbank
1/20/2011
American reporters had a unique opportunity on Wednesday to question Chinese President Hu Jintao directly on his country’s human rights record. The very first question at the state dinner press conference addressed the matter and Hu Jintao attempted to deflect by claiming difficulty in translation. But a persistent press corps forced him to address the matter, however mildly, in a way that would have been plainly impossible in any other circumstance.
Milbank writes about political theater in the nation’s capital.
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Elliott Abrams
Richard Cohen
Warren E. Buffett
It isn’t only about knowing the way in which the profound crisis is affecting the functioning of the democratic system; what is essential is that the press recover its Jeffersonian principle as a guarantee of democracy.
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