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Fading US Sway Leads to Darfur, Burma Inaction

China is ignoring rights abuses for economic interests, Time says

By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 15, 2007 3:25 PM CDT

(Newser) – Diminished US influence is allowing human rights violators in Darfur and Burma to get away with murder, Harvard expert Samantha Power writes in Time. America is speaking up louder than ever, but Uncle Sam’s diplomatic nadir makes for “a void in global human...   Read full story »

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