China Exposes US As Worst Culprit

Singapore: China has paid the United States back in its own coin. After being at the receiving end of US Govt. reports on “human rights” for years, Beijing on March 11 hit back with its own “Human Rights Record of the United States in 2001. Prepared by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, the report is scathing of its criticism of the US on the issues of foreign policy, racism, domestic inequalities and worrying conditions for women and children in America. “The United States ranks first in the world in wantonly infringing upon the sovereignty of, and human rights in, other countries”, the text of the report said. Washington, it said, had built military bases all over the world, stationing hundreds of thousands of troops in these areas. “Before the Sept.11 incident, the US had staioned its troops in more than 140 countries. Today, the US has expanded its so-called security interests to almost every corner of the world”. Referring to the US flaunting the banner of the freedom of the press, the Chinese referred to the annual report of the International Journalism Institute which pointed out that the US approach to the media during the Afghan war and its attempt at supressing freedom were the “most amazing” in 2001. The US had even walked out of a UN Conference against Racism held in Durban in September 2001. The behaviour of the US at the conference revealed its “hypocrisy” as the country professed to be a “world judge” judge of human rights, it said. (Hindu March 12, 2002).