China: Obama Adm ‘Outraged’ Over Life Sentence for Moslem Separatist

Where is the outrage; where was the outrage, from US State Department, for the thousands of Catholics, priests and bishops, sentenced to life imprisonment in China over the past fifty years? Where is the outrage for those “missing” clergy and laity who have disappeared into the labor camps and are still accounted for? No, each and every US president, from Nixon and Reagan to Clinton, the Bushes, and Obama, have granted China “most favored nation” status. $$$ Ching ching ching! A Moslem intellectual gets dragged away and now we have “outrage.”

NBCNews: The Obama administration expressed its outrage Tuesday after a Chinese court sentenced the country’s most prominent advocate for the rights of Muslim Uighur people to life in prison. Economics professor Ilham Tohti, 44, stood trial for two days last week on separatism charges in the western region of Xinjiang.  More here.