{"id":12096,"date":"2009-04-05T00:31:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T00:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_economist_diplomacy_faith_and_freedom\/"},"modified":"2009-04-05T00:31:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T00:31:51","slug":"the_economist_diplomacy_faith_and_freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12096","title":{"rendered":"The Economist: Diplomacy, faith and freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February there were groans of dismay among civil-liberties activists when Hillary Clinton, in one of her early pronouncements as secretary of state, suggested that America had more important things to discuss with China than human rights. &#8220;Our pressing on those [human-rights] issues can&#8217;t interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate-change crisis and the security crisis,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>But on March 31st the Obama administration did something very concrete to correct any impression that diplomatic lobbying for liberty was too big a luxury in a world with other woes on its mind. In a bid to redeem a body which sceptics had called irredeemable, it announced its intention to seek one of the 47 seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/international\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13416209\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February there were groans of dismay among civil-liberties activists when Hillary Clinton, in one of her early pronouncements as secretary of state, suggested that America had more important things to discuss with China than human rights. &#8220;Our pressing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12096\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,119,114,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-globalization","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}