China slams US 'rights abuses'

[cal04]

CHINA hit back at US criticism of its human rights record today, unveiling its own report detailing what it said were rights abuses in the US, involving everything from racial discrimination to crime. The Chinese report, issued by the State Council, or Cabinet, takes aim at US democracy – calling it "a game of the rich" – the high murder rate, domestic wire tapping and detention of Iraqi reporters by US forces in Iraq.

"We urge the United States government to face squarely their own human rights problems, reflect on their own actions, take practical measures and improve their human rights situation," Xinhua quoted the report as saying. Other abuses involved "secret snooping, police abuse, wrong convictions and the highest ratio of people behind bars", Xinhua said. "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 said.

The US should also "rectify their method of using human rights questions to create international confrontation", Xinhua said. "We disapprove of countries meddling in other countries' domestic affairs," Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said on the sidelines of the annual meeting of parliament. The US State Department said yesterday that China increased its censorship of the Internet and of media critics last year and that harassment and detention of those challenging the authorities grew.

The annual report is usually swiftly rejected by China, which says its human rights definition differs from the West, insisting that the basic rights of its 1.3 billion people to food, clothing and housing take precedence over individual civil liberties.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18401365%255E1702,00.html

[Flabbergasted]

1. LOL

Oh now that's a good one! I'd like to see them both face the music!

[IsItJustMe]

2. People in glass houses shouldn't thow stones.

[Jamison]

3. Wow, they are pretty much right on the money.

Calling democracy a game of the rich in *'s America is about right.

However, the pot is calling the kettle black here.

[cliss]

4. I always worry when China comes out and makes

statements about the U.S. (and I'm not the worrying kind).

After all, they are our creditor. They pretty much own the USA (along with Japan, Saudi Arabia and all the others), so we better be nice to them.

[SteelBird]

5. Is this the same China that executes the most people aunnally

and has one of the most grosteque human rights records imaginable or is that naother China. Seriously hate to use a cliche but those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Human rights don't differ from culture, they are rights that you are entitled from birth. Oh and food, clothing, and housing thats why China is doing sooooooo well. Seriously I admit that our nation has been bad on civil liberties as of late but the Chinese government really needs look at themselves.

[w4rma]

12. I fully agree. And I'm also ticked off that China's government can use

the things that our nation has done under recent Republican leadership as propaganda that too many people will swallow. Particularly *within* China where there is no freedom of the press.

[SteelBird]

14. This is also the china that treats the Tibetians like shit

I hate to sound like Bill O'Reilly here but they should shut up, they're one of the worst countries when it comes to human rights, we shouldn't take them seriously. I think people have to realize as bad as Bush is, there is so much more worse in the world, I hardly ever hear a single politican
democrat or republican mention the troulbes in teh Sudan.

[Ben Ceremos]

16. I'm sorry

but I believe I just heard the sound of glass crashing all around you.

[madeline_con]

6. Wow, that's rich!

"... detention of Iraqi reporters by US forces in Iraq."

Like they have such a free press!

"American 'democracy' is always one for the wealthy and a 'game for the rich'..."

And China's democracy?

"We disapprove of countries meddling in other countries' domestic affairs,"

Then butt out of ours, Mr. Li.

"China, which says its human rights definition differs from the West ..."

Obviously.

[951-Riverside]

7. I'm very interested in looking at this report

Its about time an outsider did a report on America.

[oblivious]

18. The US was the star (that's negative) of HRW's World Report 2006.

http://www.hrw.org/wr2k6/introduction/index.htm

[Mika]

8. How you like the fragrant monkey tail now?

Ha Ha Ha America



You want jobs? Ask Dick Cheney.


Dick Cheney say "Fuck you America".

[stevietheman]

9. The real story here: The U.S. is about as bad as China now...

or at least we're heading in that direction.

[sam sarrha]

10. i guess the genocide of 1.2 Million Tibetans doesn't count anymore..

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. How many Vietnamese died between 1960-1972?

And Iraqis between 2003 & Now. Or indians in the westward expansion for that matter.

I guess they don't count anymore either.

In spite of it's short history, the US has plenty of genocide skeletons in it's closet too.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

11. They know us better than...

...we know ourselves and I think part of their global strategy in dealing with us is to wait patiently while we foolishly exhaust our military and economic resources on little or no meaningful gains. Moral bankruptcy aside, our Middle East marauding is just incredibly stupid---no good can come of it.

[genieroze]

15. Nice glass house China! So Shaddup!

[Ben Ceremos]

17. Tinkle, tinkle, rinkle...

STFU AmeriKKKa!

[Township75]

19. China, hitting back, slams US rights abuses

BEIJING (Reuters) - China hit back at U.S. criticism of its human rights record on Thursday, unveiling its own report detailing U.S. rights abuses, while Chinese activists issued a critical look at their own country's restricted freedoms.

The Chinese report, issued by the State Council, or Cabinet, takes aim at U.S. democracy -- calling it "a game for the rich" -- the high murder rate, domestic wire tapping and detention of Iraqi reporters by U.S. forces in Iraq.

"We urge the United States government to face squarely their own human rights problems, reflect on their own actions, take practical measures and improve their human rights situation," the report, carried by the official Xinhua news agency, said.

Other abuses involved "secret snooping, police abuse, wrong convictions and the highest ratio of people behind bars," it said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060309/wl_nm/rights_china_usa_dc;_ylt=A86.I0xzOhBEy0kAgwhvaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--

[xultar]

20. I just LOVE IT. We can rightfully be criticised by China. WOW

have things changed.

[habitual]

21. exactly

this is one of the strongest indications of the trend that we have started now, where we have lost all of our credibility and have no right to say anything to anyone anymore.....

[leftyladyfrommo]

22. Its the pot calling the kettle black.

We deserve it. But China sure isn't doing all that well, either.

[Just Me]

23. Who has greater moral authority: USA or China?

:dilemma: Geez!!!