Posted on 03/09/2006 12:06:08 AM PST by indcons
China has hit back at US criticism of its human rights record by releasing its own document of alleged US abuses.
Washington said in its annual rights report that China was one of the world's "most systematic" offenders.
In return Beijing urged the US to "look squarely" at its own problems, such as a high murder rate and jail population.
While China often rejects US criticism of its rights record, this exchange is especially sensitive due to President Hu Jintao's visit to the US next month.
The report issued by China's cabinet, the State Council, on Thursday listed "a multitude of cases to show the serious violations of human rights both in and outside the US," according to state news agency Xinhua.
"As in previous years, the US State Department pointed the finger at human rights situations in more than 190 countries and regions, but kept silent on the violations of human rights in the United States," the report said.
It described alleged abuses including secret surveillance, police abuse, racial discrimination and wrongful convictions.
"The United States has always boasted itself as the model of democracy, and hawked its mode of democracy to the rest of the world, but in fact, American 'democracy' is always one for the wealthy and a 'game for the rich'," it added.
Increased censorship
In its own report, issued on Wednesday, Washington was equally scathing about Beijing's human rights record, saying it "remained poor".
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Funny to see this criticism coming from a country that has NO democracy, conducts forced abortions, kills its own citizens, occupies Tibet and Inner Mongolia, and....(think I'll stop here).
Crime is a product of human nature and in a free country there are more opportunites to practice those lower values. Our rates are higher than they should be because the Communist, like the people who run China, are working hard to lower our moral standards and interfer in our ability to fight crime.
These statistic games are meaningless. Who is to say that everyone involved here is going to honestly report their crime statistics in the first place?
I was just waiting for the ChiComs on FR to show up...looks lke it didn't take you too long to get here.
Stop discussing my superficial understanding, n00b. You have been here for less than a week (on your second avatar after the first one was banned).
Very good observation, especially when the reporting government is committing most of the crime. :-)
Look who's here :)
There is no "Inner Mongolian" nation as you think, nor was it linked to Outer Mongolia, it's merely an administration division of the old Qing Empire and had some Mongols in it, which lasted 300 years, with most of the conquering done by Manchurians.
During the 1920s, China had an opportunity to become a federation of independent states, not unlike today's EU. It would have divided China into 15-16 states, each with an average population of nearly 40 million, similar to modern Europe then. Tibet would be split in two: Tibet and Chamdo, "China Proper" (this is a modern concept, didn't exist then) would be split around 8 states, Manchuria split into 3 states, Mongolia into 2 (Inner and Outer). This idea was later scrapped and the Republic of China ended up inheriting the entire Qing Empire by 1928. Outer Mongolia declared independence with Soviet help in the 1930s to serve as a buffer state. And here we are. Modern China's territory was INHERITED, not conquered.
The English term "Chinese" is not limited to "China proper" (the concept of which again did not even exist until recently) but encompasses the population of the entire Qing Empire.
Chi-com trolls like pganini? I am surprised they have not shown up yet.
Mongolia is a soveriegn nation and China has no business in it, or Taiwan, or Tibet.
Not Inner Mongolia. Inner Mongolia is not Mongolia, never was the same thing.
"Modern China's territory was INHERITED, not conquered.
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Tibet was inherited? HUH say what?? You are implying that Chinese history is full of peace and love for their neighbors. Is that the party line in China these days?
And what about the occupation of Tibet, Askai Chin and Uighuristan?
Sounds like a list of Democrat talking points. Nice that our domestic politicians can give such aid and comfort to foreign competitors.
Gogoman (AKA ckwilliams) is here though :)
The thread diversionary tactics and the attacks by the week-old sign-up are "interesting."
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