The report by Human Rights Watch/Asia and Human Rights in China, both based in New York, says a renewed crackdown on dissent has followed President Clinton's decision two months ago to end the U.S. link between human rights and China's favorable U.S. trade status. It notes that since Clinton's decision China has held a long-delayed trial of 15 dissidents, continued a wave of arbitrary arrests of at least 17 other activists and enacted a new set of repressive security rules.
"Clinton's May decision to delink human rights" and China's most-favored-nation trade standing "has left Chinese authorities with the impression that their repression of dissent will have no negative consequences," the report concludes.
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