China hits back, accuses U.S. of rights abuses

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China accused the United States of hypocrisy on Thursday in its annual response to Washington's criticism of Beijing's human rights record, saying it had no right to blacken the name of other countries.


"As in previous years, the State Department pointed the finger at human rights conditions in more than 190 countries and regions, including China, but avoided touching on the human rights situation in the United States," said the report, carried by the official Xinhua news agency.

China hopes its report will "help people have a better understanding of the situation in the United States and promote the international cause of human rights."

"The report is like a mirror for America to look at its own human rights conditions, and to see what qualification it has to make criticism and to interfere in other countries with the excuses of human rights," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a news conference.

The report did not mention U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice's admission this week that the United States did have its own human rights problems.

The report took aim at a variety of issues, including civilian deaths in
Iraq, child poverty, racism, mistreatment of prisoners and the place of U.S. women in the workplace.

It said naming and shaming other countries in an annual report on human rights practices amounted to waging the Cold War of the second half of the 20th century and was "typical of Cold War mentality."

"We urge the U.S. government to acknowledge its own human rights problems and stop interfering in other countries' internal affairs under the pretext of human rights," said the lengthy report.

"SHOCKING INJUSTICE"

Cases of abuses were sourced to Western media reports, U.S. government statistics and even groups like Amnesty International that normally themselves face Chinese opprobrium for their criticism of Beijing's human rights record.

"Injustice of the judiciary is quite shocking," the Chinese report states. "In some cases, defendants were sent to jail without a guilty plea or a trial, or tossed from their homes without a proper proceeding.

"Abuses in U.S. prisons are also common. The United States is the only country in the world that allows the use of police dogs to terrify prisoners," it added.

Yet China has come in for censure itself from the
United Nations, whose special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, said that the practice remained widespread in the country.

Summary trials behind closed door of activists have also brought international condemnation.

China maintains the issue of human rights is about sovereignty -- non-interference in the affairs of other countries, a line taken by other countries often in the line of fire for human rights abuses, like Myanmar.


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Lol yeah, i thought i i'd post this, coz this kinda summerizes the view on America's attitude towards other countries.

Putin also gets a lot of shit from Bush and his administration, wen he tries to lable him shit like an autocratic ruler, etc etc. Too bad Putin is a highly educated man, he always replies with some funny ass comment that makes Bush quite till the next time he feels barve enough to talk.


The way i see it, this whole "axis-of-evil" and accusations is just a preparation for possible wars. Oil is running out, we will see more wars.

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^ oh yeah!



every "powerful" nation in history has come crashing down. this is the begining of the U.S.'s end.

we don't have enough resources to fight the war in Iraq. if we keep pissing off China, we won't be able to ask them for money to fight anyone.


i'm moving. lol.

U can move to siberia with me... even WW2 didnt get to siberia lol, plus you'll be the only black woman there lmao.

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^ fun. reminds me of college.


i'm truly scared about all of this though. i mean... who wants their country to fail? we all have some sense of nationalism.


i just watch the news everyday, and i think, "What the fuck are you guys doing?"

yeh,

In 1998 in russia there was a HUGE crisis, like people went from middle class - straight down to poverty, and prices jumped as the dollar got more expensive, and for some reason it only god better after we started a war in Chechnya. I thinks its just how it is. Countries of large scale that are capitalist just have to engage in war to support themeselves. Its scary, coz were would we be if there were none of these wars and why werent we able to do nothing wen a war is fought for a resource agenda.