China’s response:

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 23 (Reporter Zhu Chao) - In response to the U.S. State Department’s recently released “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2023,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin expressed strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition at a regular press briefing on April 23. Wang stated that the report’s sections concerning China were filled with political lies and ideological bias, urging the U.S. to stop criticizing other countries’ human rights situations and cease using human rights and democracy as pretexts to interfere in other countries’ internal affairs and infringe upon their human rights.

“Year after year, the U.S. concocts so-called ‘human rights reports’ riddled with political lies and ideological bias against China, to which China is strongly dissatisfied and resolutely opposed,” said Wang Wenbin.

He remarked that the Chinese people have the most authority to speak on the state of human rights in China. “We have historically resolved the issue of absolute poverty, developed democracy throughout the whole process, and established the world’s largest education, social security, and healthcare systems. The sense of gain, happiness, and security of the Chinese people continues to grow, marking a path of human rights development that suits our national conditions and aligns with the trends of the times. Surveys conducted by Harvard University over more than ten years show that over 90% of Chinese citizens are satisfied with the Chinese government.”

Wang Wenbin pointed out that, in contrast, the so-called “human rights report” by the U.S. critiques the human rights conditions of nearly 200 countries and regions, yet conspicuously omits its own issues. This once again exposes the selfish nature of American hegemony and its hypocritical double standards. “If the U.S. truly cares about human rights, it should confront and properly address its domestic issues of gun violence, rampant drug issues, racial discrimination, and the trampling of human dignity; it should reflect on its foreign interventions and the human rights disasters caused by supplying arms to conflict regions. The U.S. ignores over 110,000 civilian casualties in Gaza and has vetoed United Nations Security Council efforts to cease fire in Gaza four times consecutively. This is a clear demonstration of the U.S. disregarding and trampling human rights.”

“America’s facade of caring about human rights while actually pursuing hegemony has long been recognized by the international community,” Wang said. He concluded that the U.S. should introspect, address its own issues first, stop acting as the ‘human rights preacher,’ cease criticizing other countries’ human rights conditions, and stop using human rights and democracy as covers to meddle in other countries’ internal affairs and violate their human rights, thereby exporting conflict and turmoil.

[Machine translation, not great but you get the gist]

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