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(RS)--我在会场和很多人进行了交谈。去中国的目的是见一见中国的博客作者，了解一下他们的世界和我们有什么不同，亲身体会一下在金盾工程阻拦下，看不到很多来自西方信息的生活是怎样的。从这个角度来说，这次中国之行很有趣。

Shenyang, literally meaning “the city to the north of Shen River” and capital of the Liaoning province, is touting itself as China’s “next tourist destination.” But whether you are visiting the ancient pagodas of Old City or the official “High-tech Industrial Development Zone” the tourist brochures won’t mention the city’s male and female sex workers who mostly come from poor rural communities in search of talked-up urban opportunities. In partnership with the Ai Zhi Yuan Zhu Center for Health and Education documentary filmmaker Wei Zhang will train male and female sex workers who use the AZYZ center how to maintain a blog and upload short video documentaries to share their experiences, opinions, and troubles in order to promote more understanding of the region’s sex worker population.

Thirteen years ago in Beijing, you spoke eloquently about the duty of all governments to respect the fundamental human rights of women and men. Respect for human rights, you said, means “not taking citizens away from their loved ones and jailing them, mistreating them, or denying them their freedom or dignity because of the peaceful expression of their ideas and opinions.” In recent years, however, human rights concerns have been pushed progressively further to the margins of the U.S.-China relationship. The Chinese government’s growing financial, diplomatic, and military strength, coupled with its hostility to reforms that challenge the Chinese Communist Party’s grip on power, make China a difficult country in which to effect change. But the advancement of human rights in, and with, China is arguably more central to U.S. interests than ever before. Press censorship in China makes it possible for toxic food and public health crises to spread globally. Suppression of dissent removes internal checks against environmental damage that has global impact. Abuses of low-wage labor implicate international firms operating inside China and compromise goods that come into the United States. The government’s control of mass media and the internet allow it to stoke nationalist anger against the United States in moments of crisis. The export from China of internet-censoring technologies and its provision of unconditional aid to repressive regimes increases the United States' burdens in fighting censorship and human rights crises worldwide. As much as the Chinese government appears to resist outside pressure to improve its record, experience suggests that it does respond to such pressure.

我们对艾滋病在中国的流行及其所带来的问题的认知和解释所用的方法都学自国外；我们的一些地方和部门对世界主流的在艾滋病防治中的人权保护和反歧视的理念却在实际上予以拒绝。

最后，再说一下决策的出发点和落脚点问题，仍以艾滋病为例，尊重生命，履行国家对公民健康权的积极责任，是远重于艾滋病会影响"经济发展"等的理由。中国对艾滋病还应加大投入——但要严格审计，讲求效绩——同时，对别的病也应加大投入。财政资金的使用应均衡合理，用于公民健康的资金的使用，于各类人群之间，于各种疾病之间，也应均衡合理。

Another challenge could be a shallow pool of local Chinese translators, production assistants and helpers available to foreign reporters because of the potential for arrest for aiding foreign journalists on sensitive stories.