China criticizes US Human Rights Record in Report

earth_as_one

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The United States often releases reports critical of China's human rights record, but over the last 10 years, China's human rights record has improved dramatically. Since 9/11 human rights have deteriorated drastically in the US. Well its finally reached the point where China can legitimately criticize the US human rights record and almost not sound hypocritical... almost.

Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011

State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China

May 25, 2012

The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2011 on May 24, 2012. As in previous years, the reports are full of over-critical remarks on the human rights situation in nearly 200 countries and regions as well as distortions and accusations concerning the human rights cause in China. However, the United States turned a blind eye to its own woeful human rights situation and kept silent about it. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011 is hereby prepared to reveal the true human rights situation of the United States to people across the world and urge the United States to face up to its own doings.
Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011

Some valid points:

The US has high rates of violent crime, rape and child molestation.

Millions of Americans suffer food insecurity and homelessness.

Americans who protest non-violently are beaten and arrested. (Occupy Wall Street)

The US does not allow reporters to protect their sources.

The U.S. democracy is increasingly being influenced by capitalization and becoming a system for "master of money."

The U.S. remains the country with the largest "prison population" and the highest per capita level of imprisonment in the world,

Racial discrimination is rampant in some parts of the US.

The United States has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, nor the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The US has conducted medical experiments by infecting people with sexually transmitted diseases both domestically and internationally. (in the late 1940's)

Recent US led wars have resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of serious injuries and made millions of people homeless.

Concluding paragraph:

The above-mentioned facts are but a small yet illustrative enough fraction of the United States' dismal record on its human rights situation. The United States' own tarnished human rights record has made it in no condition, on moral, political or legal basis, to act as the world's "human rights justice," to place itself above other countries and release the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices year after year to accuse and blame other countries. We hereby advise the U.S. government once again to look squarely at its own grave human rights problems, to stop the unpopular practices of taking human rights as a political instrument for interference in other countries' internal affairs, smearing other nations'images and seeking its own strategic interests, and to cease using double standards on human rights and pursuing hegemony under the pretext of human rights.
 

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Yup all of what is said is true to one degree or another, even so it is still far better to live
in America than in some of the other God forsaken countries on earth and one of the
worst is China. China is an enigma, we detest their behavior yet our mercenary business
people who have no loyalty do the bulk of their business with them.
America has faults so does Canada but at least when we want to protest something we do
not have to stare down the barrel of tanks in the street.
If anyone is waiting for a perfect nation they will wait a long time.
In addition, in an open society you will have rape, murder, shootings and a host of other crimes.
Why is that? In some other nations people would be locked up on suspicion they might commit
a crime and a lot of innocent people get locked up for suspicion.
It is time we looked at improving our society and ensuring peoples rights are protected, but the
difference is we have rights that need protecting, in some countries like China, they don't have
rights to protect.
Personally I will stick to an imperfect system we will try to improve than advocate for a system
where we would have to start from scratch because the meaning of rights does not yet exist.
America and Canada and Western Democracies in general are way ahead of the game on human
rights even with their short comings.
 

earth_as_one

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DG, you should read the report.

Also I've been to China and its not the same country it was 23 years ago during the crackdown on Tienanmen protestors.

Here's an example of a recent protest in China:

... a growing environmental movement is beginning to make the most polluting projects much harder to build and operate. Large and sometimes violent demonstrations against the planned construction of one of the largest copper smelting complexes on earth prompted local officials in southwestern China’s Sichuan Province to continue backpedaling furiously on Wednesday. The local government of Shifang, the planned site of the smelter, announced in a statement that the construction of the $1.6 billion complex had not only been suspended but also permanently canceled.

The smelter was supposed to be the centerpiece of a planned economic revitalization of an area devastated by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, through the creation of thousands of construction jobs at a time when the overall Chinese economy is suffering a sharp slowdown.

A police official in Shifang said in a telephone interview that everyone detained in the protests had been released. The police acted after a crowd estimated by local residents in the tens of thousands defied the police and assembled Tuesday evening to demand the release of dozens of students jailed in the protests on Sunday and Monday.

In a country infamous for its polluted air and water, the protests were only the latest in a series of large, sometimes violent demonstrations that appear to be having some success in pushing China to impose more stringent safeguards on new manufacturing and mining projects.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/w...-cancel-plant-project-amid-protests.html?_r=0

Mind you it depends what the Chinese are protesting. The authorities aren't nearly so tolerant when it comes to direct threats to them or Chinese sovereignty over Tibet.

I can say all of Shanghai and Beijing are safer than Toronto or Ottawa.... and far more safer than parts of New York city or the area around the Whitehouse in Washington.

Also millions of desperately poor people in the US do go to bed hungry. China doesn't have this problem. Their poor lack possessions, but they all have adequate food.

I disagree that we are further ahead than China in all cases. I was able to travel from anywhere in Shanghai in under an hour by public transit. That would not be possible in the Greater Toronto Area and Shanghai is about 5x's the size of Toronto.. Shanghai's business and tourist sections were more modern and cleaner than any Canadian city and completely safe at any time day or night.... and I saw very few police, mostly because their crime rate is so low. They simply aren't needed.
 

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DG, you should read the report.

I disagree that we are further ahead than China in all cases. I was able to travel from anywhere in Shanghai in under an hour by public transit. Shanghai's business and tourist sections were more modern and cleaner than any Canadian city and completely safe at any time day or night.... and I saw very few police, mostly because their crime rate is so low. They simply aren't needed.
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Lived in China for almost 8 years .Written many letters (in CC ) about the country of China , received mostly petty minded responses .
Maybe they'll believe you .
Lived in Shanghai-Pu Dong 2 years, subway system is second to none .
I might be called a Commie or a traitor again .hahaha
 

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Please.... One does himself no favours in overlooking one's own part in one's own persecution. Perhaps if good news wasn't interspersed with hateful remarks of another's home, one wouldn't catch the e-poke
 

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Please.... One does himself no favours in overlooking one's own part in one's own persecution. Perhaps if good news wasn't interspersed with hateful remarks of another's home, one wouldn't catch the e-poke
One does himself no favours in overlooking one's own part in one's own persecution.

-like your philosophy Master .
 

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I agree that China has made huge progress, but the US has gone the other way.

The Occupy Wall Street protesters found out about police brutality and their right to peacefully protest.

Gitmo and dozens of other Black Op sites proves the US abducts and tortures people without any legal due process,.

The US summarily executes people without any legal due process, even American citizens.

Canada has abandoned Canadian citizens rotting in US dungeons and stranded abroad due to US lists which arbitrarily prevent people from flying.

Canadians abroad cannot vote in Canadian elections... even Egyptians have that right.
 
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Also millions of desperately poor people in the US do go to bed hungry. China doesn't have this problem. Their poor lack possessions, but they all have adequate food.

LMAO. What a joke. Our "poor" are the most obese class in our own country. Our desperately poor live better than most other countries middle class.

Our poor lack neither possession nor food. Flat screens, cable TV, air conditioning... they have it all.

YOU FAIL
 

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LMAO. What a joke. Our "poor" are the most obese class in our own country. Our desperately poor live better than most other countries middle class.

Our poor lack neither possession nor food. Flat screens, cable TV, air conditioning... they have it all.

YOU FAIL
Yeap , that's why H Clinton goes to China begging for money .
 

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Wait just a minute the poor in this country do not all have flat screen TVs and they do have food and
housing concerns. Some have to make choices between paying the rent and buying food and having
the power or heat still hooked up. Yes we have a poverty program a serious one, the problem for many
is they equate poverty here to poverty in the third world. Poverty here is just as serious as anywhere
else.
The problem is if we continue to just put our head in the sand we will find the poor and desperate looking
for something different. It has happened in many civilizations in the past and it could happen here.
I have seen things here in our city where single mothers have to make those choices.
America is not the wonderful place that people can only dream about its just a whole lot better than the
nightmare most are living in. As for China, they can have all the subways they want and the trains can
run on time that does not mean they have democracy or freedom of choice. they are being distracted
by things at the moment and that wears thin. We once were distracted by things and now we wonder
where all the things and jobs and so on have gone.
I am a person who believes we have it better than most but a long way from perfect.
As for China, the problem is they have a new direction but its not based on democracy and choice.
Hitler improved things in Germany and Mussolini improved things in Italy but the mask of reality was
ripped off at the advent of war. All that progress was nothing more than a thin disguise.
The fact is no where is perfect but the open society we have is still preferable to the Chinese system.
Oh and the environmental movement is Asia, sure its growing but most people don't realize Hitler was
a hardcore environmentalist he was still a tyrant.
 

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Wait just a minute the poor in this country do not all have flat screen TVs and they do have food and
housing concerns. Some have to make choices between paying the rent and buying food and having
the power or heat still hooked up. Yes we have a poverty program a serious one, the problem for many
is they equate poverty here to poverty in the third world. Poverty here is just as serious as anywhere
else. .

Ahhhh well that is too bad. Our poor have everything they need plus a little more.
 

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Ahhhh well that is too bad. Our poor have everything they need plus a little more.
What's "to bad " is that your country lives on credit and an illusion .The grater the credit the greater the illusion .The poor are real - if you are able to see them .No illusion about that .
 

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I agree that China has made huge progress, but the US has gone the other way.

The Occupy Wall Street protesters found out about police brutality and their right to peacefully protest.

Gitmo and dozens of other Black Op sites proves the US abducts and tortures people without any legal due process,.

The US summarily executes people without any legal due process, even American citizens.

Canada has abandoned Canadian citizens rotting in US dungeons and stranded abroad due to US lists which arbitrarily prevent people from flying.

Canadians abroad cannot vote in Canadian elections... even Egyptians have that right.

Perhaps you should perform some decent research on China and Human Rights before you go off on your usual US Rant and Rave
Look at property that is confiscated
Persons who make complaints against party members
How many riots china has had this year or last year or the year before.

And then Tibet - or the Mongolians- or the Uyghur - till then you are just up to your usual standard of trolling.
Such a sad little wanker. Really sad.