{"id":188691,"date":"2015-11-25T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T00:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=188691"},"modified":"2015-11-25T16:58:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T00:58:59","slug":"behind-the-abas-tepid-condemnation-of-beijings-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/11\/behind-the-abas-tepid-condemnation-of-beijings-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the ABA Downplayed China&#8217;s Rights Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Xi administration&#8217;s\u00a0wide-reaching\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/civil-society\/\">crackdown on civil society activism<\/a>\u00a0escalated in July when\u00a0over 200 human <a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/07\/campaign-against-rights-lawyers-criminal-gang-broadens\/\">rights lawyers and activists were detained or questioned<\/a>\u00a0in what became known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/black-friday-2015\/\">&#8220;Black Friday&#8221; round-up<\/a>; while the majority of those detained have since been released,\u00a0some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/09\/the-case-of-wang-yu-emblem-of-chinas-human-rights-crackdown\/\">remain in custody\u00a0in undisclosed locations<\/a>, and other lawyers have <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/09\/pu-zhiqiang-trial-delayed-amid-restrictions-on-rights-lawyers\/\">since met travel restrictions<\/a>. Amid\u00a0protest from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/ps\/2015\/07\/244820.htm\">foreign governments<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.ca\/news\/news-releases\/china-dozens-of-human-rights-lawyers-targeted-in-nationwide-crackdown\">human rights organizations<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thestandnews.com\/china\/%E7%AB%8B%E5%8D%B3%E9%87%8B%E6%94%BE%E5%85%A7%E5%9C%B0%E7%B6%AD%E6%AC%8A%E5%BE%8B%E5%B8%AB-%E6%87%87%E6%B1%82%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E5%BE%8B%E5%B8%AB%E6%9C%83-%E5%A4%A7%E5%BE%8B%E5%B8%AB%E5%85%AC%E6%9C%83%E7%99%BC%E8%81%B2\/#.VaNENtYlRFs.twitter\">legal groups<\/a>, the American Bar Association in August <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/news\/abanews\/aba-news-archives\/2015\/08\/aba_president_willia.html\">issued a mild statement<\/a>, which was criticized by NYU legal scholar Jerome Cohen as being &#8220;adequate,&#8221; but not meeting his &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeromecohen.net\/jerrys-blog\/2015\/9\/8\/the-abas-statement-about-the-crackdown-on-lawyers-in-china\">standard for what would be appropriate<\/a>.&#8221; In an editorial for the Washington Post, Robert Edward Precht described the state as exemplary of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/a-moral-dilemma-for-the-american-bar-association\/2015\/09\/06\/55e4bf74-5343-11e5-933e-7d06c647a395_story.html\">growing\u00a0problem for international organizations working in China<\/a>: &#8220;the pressure to keep silent in the face of human rights abuses even if doing so violates their mission statements.&#8221; At Foreign Policy, Isaac Stone Fish takes a deeper look\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2015\/11\/23\/china_american_bar_association_crackdown_human_rights\/\"><strong>what\u00a0likely kept the ABA&#8217;s statement as placid as it was<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ABA\u2019s August statement sits at the intersection of several moral questions regarding foreign institutions dealing with a rising China and with authoritarian governments worldwide. Does the ABA\u2019s furthering of a specific goal \u2014 broadly speaking, the rule of law \u2014 justify downplaying a human rights abuse like the arbitrary detention of human rights lawyers? More pointedly, does doing good work quietly in China give an organization a pass from speaking up against injustice?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] Problematically for the organization, the goals of ABA ROLI [Rule of Law Initiative] don\u2019t always accord with those of the ABA more broadly: When ABA ROLI advocates for Chinese human rights lawyers, those efforts may harm the pragmatic interests of ABA members who practice corporate law in China \u2014 by tainting the organization and foreign lawyers in Beijing\u2019s eyes. \u201cThe ABA is a complex organization that should take a leadership role in advocating for lawyers and the profession,\u201d said an ex-employee of ABA ROLI, who asked to remain anonymous because of the controversy surrounding the debate. And yet, ABA ROLI \u201cand the reality of programming on the ground create internal tensions,\u201d the ex-employee said. Multiple sources admitted that it is difficult, if not impossible, for an organization of the ABA\u2019s size or complexity to please its members while satisfying the demands of Beijing. But the August statement following the detention of Chinese lawyers and activists \u201cmisses the mark,\u201d the ex-employee concluded, \u201ceven cognizant of how it might have ended up so seemingly toothless and strange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]\u00a0<span class=\"pull-quote has-quote\" data-pullquote=\"Beijing\u2019s mandarins are notoriously sensitive, especially toward criticism from foreign organizations.\">Beijing\u2019s mandarins are notoriously sensitive, especially toward criticism from foreign organizations.<\/span>\u00a0At the same time, the sheer size and influence of China makes successfully engaging with the country increasingly critical. Several people working at foreign legal NGOs in Beijing admired that the ABA dared issue a statement at all. \u201cThere is power in just standing up and saying something,\u201d the head of a legal reform NGO in Beijing said, asking to speak anonymously because of the sensitivity of the subject. \u201cBeijing is not going to parse the language; they\u2019re just going to say, \u2018Oh, they made the statement.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On one level, the two sides are fighting the same battle: Both Beijing and foreign legal NGOs want to strengthen and improve China\u2019s judiciary. Recently, for example, there has been a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-31845874\" target=\"_blank\">successful push<\/a>\u00a0to reduce wrongful convictions for nonpolitical court cases. Shortly after coming to power in late 2012, Chinese President Xi Jinping instituted a wide-ranging fight against corruption in the Communist Party apparatus. He has targeted both \u201cflies\u201d and \u201ctigers\u201d \u2014 low-level officials and the powerful elite \u2014 reportedly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.transparency.org\/2015\/02\/23\/it-has-become-more-difficult-to-be-corrupt-in-china\/\" target=\"_blank\">decreasing instances<\/a>\u00a0of crimes like bribery and graft. [&#8230;] [<a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2015\/11\/23\/china_american_bar_association_crackdown_human_rights\/\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more about the ongoing crackdown on <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/civil-society\/\">civil society<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/freedom-of-expression\/\">free speech<\/a>, or Xi&#8217; Jinping&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/xi-anti-corruption-campaign\/\">anti-corruption drive<\/a>, or concerns over the <a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/06\/china-civil-society-crackdown\/\">draft foreign NGO law<\/a>, via CDT. Also see CDT coverage of\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/publishing\/\">similar debate among foreign writers<\/a>: is\u00a0publishing\u00a0in China&#8217;s highly-censored market\u2014and hence exposing readers to information they may otherwise have missed\u2014worth the cost of bowing to censors requests?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Xi administration&#8217;s\u00a0wide-reaching\u00a0crackdown on civil society activism\u00a0escalated in July when\u00a0over 200 human rights lawyers and activists were detained or questioned\u00a0in what became known as the &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; round-up; while the majority of those detained have since been released,\u00a0some\u00a0remain in custody\u00a0in undisclosed locations, and other lawyers have since met travel restrictions. 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