US pressure on rights will fail: China

A Chinese Communist Party-run newspaper says the country will not allow US to dictate political reforms. An editorial warns that any American pressure over human rights will torpedo dialogue on such issues.The defiant piece appeared on Thursday on the second day of an annual China-US human rights dialogue that comes amid a major Chinese crackdown on government critics. Talks have yielded little progress in recent years and are expected to be even more testy than usual this year. Many human rights advocates are questioning the value of such diplomatic exchanges.The paper claims that China would not accept requests put forward by the US and claimed most Chinese were disgusted by outside pressure on human rights.