China Spits Back

[Dhimbil]

The U.S's State Department recently released their annual Human Rights report accusing China of Committing Numerous Rights Abuses. Well China is talking back!

 

China tells US to 'reflect on erroneous behaviour'

 

BEIJING, March 3: China on Thursday accused the United States of serious human rights violations and told Washington to clean up its own act before "wantonly trampling on the sovereignty of other countries".

 

In its annual Human Rights Record of the United States, China hit out at the atrocity of US troops in Iraq and criticized the Bush administration for failing to deal with poverty, racial discrimination and crime at home.

 

It was published just days after the US released its own annual human rights report, which accused China of muting dissent, suppressing religious rights and restricting freedom of speech.

 

"Despite tons of problems in its own human rights, the United States continues to stick to its belligerent stance, wantonly trampling on the sovereignty of other countries," said the report, the sixth China has issued.

 

"The United States should reflect on its erroneous behaviour on human rights and take its own human rights problems seriously instead of indulging itself in publishing the 'human rights country report' to censure other countries unreasonably."

 

China suspended its human rights dialogue with the US a year ago in protest at Washington's decision to seek a resolution condemning Beijing's rights record at a UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva. But foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao indicated it was time to resume the talks. "The report is an alarm bell to alert the United States to its own problems," he said after its release. "The best way to improve this kind of situation is to sit down and have dialogue on an equal footing."

 

The report, which widely cited media and aid group reports and official US statistics, focused on US abuse of Iraqi prisoners. "In 2004 the atrocity of US troops abusing Iraqi POWs exposed the dark side of human rights performance of the United States," it said, adding that the United States "frequently commits wanton slaughters during external invasions and military attacks."

 

"A survey on Iraqi civilian deaths, based on the natural death rate before the war, estimates that the US-led invasion might have led to 100,000 more deaths in the country, with most victims being women and children."

 

It also charged that the United States has been "hindering" the work of the United Nation's human rights mechanism. "And it either took no notice of or used delaying tactics on the requests of relevant UN agencies to visit its Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba."

 

Domestically, Americans were "threatened by rampant violent crimes and severe infringement of civil rights by law enforcement departments". It highlighted the widely publicized case of Chinese citizen Zhao Yan who was handcuffed and beaten last year while in the United States on a business trip.

 

'DEMOCRACY FOR THE RICH': The report also lashed out at the US being a democracy "manipulated by the rich", saying four billion dollars was spent on the presidential election while "poverty, hunger and homelessness haunt the United States".

 

China also bemoaned the fact that "racial discrimination has been deeply rooted in the United States, permeating into every aspect of society", saying coloured people were generally poorer than whites.

 

"Racial prejudice is ubiquitous in judicial fields," it said. The situation of American women and children was also "disturbing". "The rates of women and children physically or sexually victimized were high," said the report.

 

"No country should exclude itself from the international human rights development process, or view itself as the incarnation of human rights which can reign over other countries and give orders to the others," it said. "Even the United States shall be no exception." -AFP

 

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Finally, eh

[Gabbal]

About time I say. America should be toppled off its pedestal.

[Paragon]

The US, my dear Nomads, has found herself a playmate of her size. An interesting era is upon us: China's century. Want to know more about China's emergence? Oh! The BBC has dedicated the whole of this week to China's World. You know when something quite serious is up .

[Suldaanka]

A strong China will offset the economic, political and military imbalance that has been the norm since the demise of the Soviet Union.

 

For the Africans and other poor or developing countries around the world this is a great news. China is a very attractive alternative.

 

"Win the war - without war" - Chinese military philosophy.

[Sky]

yes suldaanka its good news if there are two superpowers, the weaker countries will benefit from their competition like the sovjet-us tartan. till china really roars, the us can dictate whatever the hell they want.

plus i think that china is a country with higher standard of morals than the us and sovjets.