  urlLink People's Daily : "China is expected to publish Tuesday a white paper on its human rights progress over the past year, an official with the Information Office of the State Council said Monday. " In an interesting turn of events China is to publish one of it's famous " White Papers " on it's Human Rights progress, assured by the People's Daily to be packed solid of facts and figures.
These " White Papers " are usually self jusifying documents that are heavily "weighted" (to put a diplomatic spin on it) towards China's point of view. Early last year the PRC put out a urlLink "White Paper" on urlLink Xinjiang (read Uygur) in response to growing criticism of their attacks on Uygur freedoms and liberties under the guise of the " War On Terror " Whilst a good document generally in terms of facts and figures it tended to do a bit of history re-write.
These "White Papers" need to be viewed in light of what they are: Justification exercises. If that is born in mind then they can be very useful particularly in giving insight into the Chinese mindset on a particular topic. I await this one eagerly. Linked Article Read Rating: Only If You Have The Time 
