Posted on 10/24/2010 11:17:10 PM PDT by GreatJoeMcCarthy
China's state media on Monday said the revelations in Iraq war documents published by WikiLeaks has tarnished the credibility of the United States as a protector of human rights. The comments in the China Daily come after Beijing criticised a report by a commission of US lawmakers and government officials that condemned an "increasingly harsh" crackdown by Beijing on rights activists and lawyers. The issue of human rights is always a sensitive one in Sino-US relations. Earlier this month Washington called for the immediate release of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The documents published by the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks appear to show that the US military turned a blind eye to evidence of torture and abuse of civilians by the Iraqi authorities. "The magnitude of the crimes should make every righteous person angry. It again puts a big question mark against the US self-proclaimed image as the world human rights champion," the China Daily said in a commentary. "For years, the US has been wielding the banner of human rights to criticise others, especially developing countries," it said. "However, the US refuses to either clarify or rectify its own human rights violations as recorded by the WikiLeaks documents," it said, adding the documents let the world see through US "unilateralism and double standards". "The US will lose credibility if it cannot face its own human rights violations squarely," the China Daily said. Human rights is one of a long list of issues that will likely be on the US agenda when Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Washington in January. The world's top two economies have also been at odds in recent months over the value of the Chinese yuan, a litany of trade disputes, web censorship and US arms sales to Taiwan.
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Watch out when China condemns you for human rights violations. Their lack of moral authority makes it all the funnier - like a Monte Python skit.
It’s official...we are in the Twilight Zone.
Hey China! Shut up you atheist scum and burn in He!! where you belong!
it gets better...probably tomorrow Cuba, North Korea and Iran will probably blame the US for every atrocity on earth.
Oh,China. Youz so crazy!
ya just had to know that was coming
In other news, John Kerry called someone else an effette liberal snob who marries for money. And wears gay biking shorts.
Remind me not to buy a Parrot from the Chinese , especially one of those “Pining” Parrots
TT
John Kerry supports NASA (and he got to keep his “Bunny Suit”)
TT
What OldMissileer said
What OldMissileer said
Pot calls the snow black. Details at 11.
China is heading over the cliff.
So lets see 400000+ “secret” documents from the chinese military archives and see what we find? Just how many tens of millions of their own citizens did they kill in the last century? Hmmmmm...
Oh, so! Pot call kettle black.
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