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World News Today – U.S. ambassador to Beijing said that the record of Human Rights China deteriorated after the communist rulers felt threatened by the rise of pro-democracy movements throughout the Middle East.

“The condition of human rights are always ups and downs in China, but we apparently are in a period of down and getting worse,” said Ambassador Gary Locke in “The Charlie Rose Show” on U.S. public television on Monday (1/16/2012) the night.

Locke refers to the detention of dissidents, lawyers and other parties who provide criticism in China. It was felt since the beginning of the emergence of the Arab movement that overthrew authoritarian leaders in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia in the last year.

“The Chinese leadership is afraid of something similar happening in China,” said Locke, as the AP and AFP on Tuesday.

“So there has been a significant crackdown on rebel, political discussion, and even the rights and activities of the lawyers who advocate for people who have been poisoned foods and medicines contaminated with toxins,” he said.

Ambassador back to Washington for consultations ahead of the visit of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping next month, which is widely expected to take control of the resurrection power of Asia in early 2013.

Locke made the trip after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to visit China and Japan in an effort to encourage energy-hungry countries in Asia to cut energy imports from Iran because of concerns about the Islamic republic’s nuclear program.

Locke acknowledged that China, while supporting previous UN sanctions on Iran, has not convinced about the need for further punitive measures. “The United States is deeply concerned over Iran’s nuclear capability and we really felt that more pressure should be given to Iran,” Locke said.

“I do not believe that they think if Iran is a direct threat,” he said.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said last week that China’s energy demand is reasonable and should not be linked with the Iranian nuclear issue.

Iran has threatened to cut off access to the Gulf after the United States was angry with the new laws targeted at foreign consumers of oil and the EU proposal for the oil embargo. Iran insists that its uranium enrichment work is for peaceful purposes but Western countries suspect it to build nuclear weapons.