In China - where the summer Olympic Games are opened on Friday - is criticized for repressing the rights, freedoms and guarantees to give a speech Thursday by the American president in Thailand.

“The Chinese people should enjoy the rights, freedoms and guarantees that are a natural condition for all human beings,” says George W. Bush in this speech, distributed in advance by the White House.

The North American president stresses that his country opposes the detention of religious activists, human rights defenders and dissidents in China.

“We defend the freedom of expression, assembly and association and the right to work, not to counter the ‘intelligentsia’ Chinese, but because this is the only way for the full development potential of the country,” points out.

Bush arrived this Wednesday to Thailand from South Korea and will from Thursday to China, where they remain until Monday, watching on Friday the official opening of the Olympic Games of summer

This tour is seen by political analysts as the international final goodbye to the American president to Asia.

The presence of Bush in Beijing coincides with complaints of violations of human rights activists by the Chinese authorities because they had not fulfilled the promises undertaken for the organisation of the Summer Olympic Games, citing the pretext of security to exercise repression.

In September 2007, Bush assured that it would the official opening of the Summer Olympic Games and has since resisted all calls for the boycott.

Bush has now to “attack” due to strong pressure notably from Congress, to take the media coverage of the big event in China, where he expects the North American athletes get the largest possible number of medals of gold.