China sees conspiracy behind Olympics criticisms

[New Governor Of Alaska]

This thread mostly about America's policies rather than China's Olympics.
I agree with China's statement. Someone has to tell US to mind its own business...


From Reuters:

By Chris Buckley
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said the United States is unfit to present itself as a "defender of human rights" and a senior official accused Western critics of conspiring to use the Beijing Olympic Games to subvert Communist Party rule.

The U.S. State Department's latest report on human rights across the globe, issued this week, did not name China among the world's very worst offenders but said its record remained "poor".

But with Beijing due to host the Olympic Games starting August 8, focusing intense international attention on China's often harsh restrictions on dissidents, religious groups and disgruntled citizens, officials hit back on Thursday with sarcasm and their own accusations.
"We humbly suggest that the U.S. desist from posing as a 'defender of human rights' and pay more attention to the United States' own human rights record," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement issued by the official Xinhua news agency.

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[coyote_sprit]

We may not have the greatest human rights record known to the world but China's is worse and yet they get praised for their sick communist policies. I'm still not tuning into the Beijing Olympics not that I watch the Olympics as is.

 

[apc3161]

In case anyone was interested, the Chinese release a report every year concerning Human Rights abuses in the U.S

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/13/content_7779839.htm

Thats a link to the full report. They actually nail us pretty hard and show us to be hypocrites. They write this report every year in retaliation to the report we write about them.

 

[ItsTime]

They are so bad McDonalds runs out of hamburgers

 

[Nirvikalpa]

Yeah I agree with coyote.

China shouldn't really be talking much about human rights, considering they practiced female infanticide. The largest holocaust in history and nobody talks about it.

As for the statement though, I agree. Too bad it was China that said it though.

 

[ARealConservative]

We may not have the greatest human rights record known to the world but China's is worse and yet they get praised for their sick communist policies. I'm still not tuning into the Beijing Olympics not that I watch the Olympics as is.

QFT.

I'm in the I/T field and work with many that left China. The meetup group I organize has several Chinese members.

There is no comparison at all.

Our drug policy is draconian, and our tax policy has moved way, way too far away from freedom, but to even compare us with China is the most retarded thing a person can do.

And the best way to alienate American voters is to paint us in the same light.

 

[orafi]

They are far worse than us... but nonetheless, it is just like the pot calling the kettle black.

 

[New Governor Of Alaska]

In case anyone was interested, the Chinese release a report every year concerning Human Rights abuses in the U.S

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/13/content_7779839.htm

Thats a link to the full report. They actually nail us pretty hard and show us to be hypocrites. They write this report every year in retaliation to the report we write about them.

Thank you for the link, apc.


On Human Rights Violations by Law Enforcement and Judicial Departments:

The abuse of their power by law enforcement and judicial departments in the United States has seriously violated the freedom and rights of its citizens.

Cases in which U.S. law enforcement authorities allegedly violated victims' civil rights increased by 25 percent from fiscal year 2001 to 2007 over the previous seven years, according to statistics from U.S. Department of Justice (Police Brutality Casesup 25%; Union Worried Over Dip in Hiring Standards, USA Today, December 18, 2007). The national average among large police departments for excessive-force complaints was 9.5 per 100 full-time officers (The New York Times, November 14, 2007). But the majority of law enforcement officers accused of brutality were not prosecuted in the end. From May 2001 to June 2006, 2,451 police officers in Chicago received four to 10 complaints each, 662 of them received more than 10 complaints each, but only 22 were punished. Furthermore, there were officers who had amassed more than 50 abuse complaints but were never disciplined in any fashion (The Chicago Police Department's Broken System, University of Chicago, www.law.chicago.edu). On August 17, 2006, a 52-year-old Chicago woman named Dolores Robare was nearly struck by a speeding police car when she was crossing the road. The officer stopped and asked her to produce her identification. She was brutally beaten by the police when she asked them why it was taking so long (The Chicago Tribune, May 1, 2007).

On December 15,2006, four businessmen were beaten by six off-duty officers at a bar for no apparent reasons (The Chicago Tribune, June 9, 2007). On August 3, 42-year-old African American Geffrey Johnson was killed at his home by the police using a taser gun. On August 6, 18-year-old black youth Aaron Harrison was shot in the back and killed by police pursuing him (The Chicago Tribune, August 9, 2007).


READ REPORT HERE - Full Text of Human Rights Record of United States in 2007

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[armand61685]

We do have human right abuses. But China has shown itself to be a rather savage and backward country. Of course not everyone is bad, but chinese society after the communist revolution became soulless and backward.

I won't be watching the olympics.

 

[raiha]

They are so bad McDonalds runs out of hamburgers

I'm appalled at what China has done and is doing to Tibet. It is contaminated with uranium; they imprison and torture monks; they burnt the monastaries and murdered thousands of nuns and monks. They shoot anyone trying to escape to India. They have destroyed thousands of sacred texts. They are ethnic cleansing a most peaceful, intelligent culture...(a blueprint for how humanity could be.)
China is a brutal, totalitarian regime and it won't be long before they are running the world. They have all the time in the world.

Governor of Alaska...you can't compare the US human rights abuses to Chinese behaviour even if the Chinese do....Vile propaganda. Richard Gere's interview on CNN was excellent. He holds the true Buddhist attitude.

I don't know if boycotting the Games will improve life for the Tibetans. I think there'd be accelerated genocide.

 

[kimo]

Funny short film I saw apx. 1/2 year ago prodused by J.D.Ligon
Great music..
OK, i had grown from this stuff many years ago, but wah, it`s friday evening..

http://www.atomfilms.com/film/haha_america.jsp

 

[Carole]

Uh, I think China might be referring also to how we are causing the suffering and deaths of so many people in foreign countries.

 

[New Governor Of Alaska]

So what would US government do if some people start rioting in any American city?

 

[Andrew-Austin]

Govenor of Alaska continues his spree of spamming Pro-China propaganda, and Chinese government boot licking.

Mods?!


No one here wants to apologize for the United States government many faults, so I don't see why he wants to apologize for the Chinese governments faults (which in somes cases are more severe)