Posted on 04/26/2018 12:28:13 AM PDT by BBell
BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) -- China Tuesday published a report on the United States' human rights situation.
The report, titled "Human Rights Record of the United States in 2017," was released by the Information Office of the State Council, China's cabinet, in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2017 issued by the U.S. State Department on April 20 local time.
A Chronology of Human Rights Violations of the United States in 2017 was also released by the office Tuesday.
China's report said the United States posed once again as "the guardian of human rights" and a self-styled "human rights judge" while its own human rights record remained tarnished and showed a continued deterioration tendency.
The report accused the United States of serious infringement on citizens' civil rights, systematic racial discrimination, severe flaws in the American-style democracy, widening rich-poor divide, discrimination and assault against some specific groups such as women, children and people with disabilities as well as its continued violations of human rights in other countries.
The report noted that on the evening of October 1, 2017, almost 60 people were killed and more than 800 injured in a mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
It also quoted some reports of polls of American academics as saying that the respondents believed that American democracy is "drowning in money."
According to the report, the US-led military operations in other countries have caused heavy civilian casualties. The Guantanamo Bay detention camp continued to detain and torture foreigners. The United States also made cyber warfare tools, hacking and spying foreign networks.
The U.S. may not be perfect but being chastised by China ought to be considered a badge of honor.
Dems will probably use this in their talking points.
Isn’t this one of those pot meet kettle type of situations?
Regurgitated communists' talking points.
They may have already used it to get FISA warrants.
On the contrary...when asked about the United States one of the most cited issues are mass shootings. Chinese generally don't think the United States is a safe place.
Actually it is not a human right issue. They are just deflecting. I doubt that Chinese think they have more press freedom than U.S., where scrubbing Internet posts is an established norm long before U.S. liberals start to contemplate it.
Good. Maybe they will stay away.
I doubt the average person in China cares that much about a free press. They're more interested in making money and a obtaining a better standard of living for their families.
Neoconservatives like to pretend the rest of the world is chock full of Jeffersonian democrats yearning for their very own Bill of Rights...and help from Uncle Sam in securing them.
That’s not even close to being true, especially in China.
I am not so sure if all of them are happy with that. It will be a big problem if they cannot voice their grievance and are punished instead. Nobody likes it when it happens.
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