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“We Must Be Careful We Don’t Make Them Lose Face”
Herblock objects to the Clinton Administration’s stance toward China by depicting the president losing his own face because of excessive concern over not offending Chinese leadership by too harshly criticizing its human rights violations. The Chinese figure brandishing a rifle and bomb stands on protesters’ bodies, a symbolic reminder of China’s violent suppression of its citizens’ human rights. On May 19, 1997, soon after this cartoon appeared, Clinton announced renewal of China’s Most Favored Nation trading status.
Herblock objects to the Clinton Administration’s stance toward China by depicting the president losing his own face because of excessive concern over not offending Chinese leadership by too harshly criticizing its human rights violations. The Chinese figure brandishing a rifle and bomb stands on protesters’ bodies, a symbolic reminder of China’s violent suppression of its citizens’ human rights. On May 19, 1997, soon after this cartoon appeared, Clinton announced renewal of China’s Most Favored Nation trading status.