The Chinese leader got an earful about his regime's human-rights deficiencies from Senate Majority Leader Lott and House Speaker Gingrich at a lunch meeting. The pair from America's former slave-holding states told Jiang they like what he's done with his economy. However, they intoned, freedom can't be a halfway thing: "You cannot have a system that is half totalitarian and half free. It will not survive," Gingrich said.
Lecturing Jiang
The Chinese leader got an earful about his regime's human-rights deficiencies from Senate Majority Leader Lott and House Speaker Gingrich at a lunch meeting. The pair from America's former slave-holding states told Jiang they like what he's done with his economy. However, they intoned, freedom can't be a halfway thing: "You cannot have a system that is half totalitarian and half free. It will not survive," Gingrich said.
