China disputes US human rights record

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China is retorting US criticism by publishing its own report on America's human rights record. This is the 11th consecutive year that China issued a human rights dissertation on the US. The documents rebuts Washington's annual analysis, so that the people around the world will understand true picture of human rights in the United States.

The Information Office of the State Council says that, as in previous years, the US Human Rights Report "turns a blind eye to, or dodges, and even covers up rampant abuses on its own territory."

Statistics show that violent crimes pose threats to the lives, property, and personal security of the American people. The rate remains high. The US also ranks first in the world in the number of privately-owned guns.

Certain accounts show that abuse of power is common among US law enforcement officers.

Other sources points out that the basic rights of prisoners are not well protected. And in some cases, chaotic management of detention facilities have led to widespread outbreaks of diseases among inmates.

The report says the term "Freedom of the Press" is, in fact, completely subordinate to its national interests, and often manipulated by the US government.

The 2009 unemployment rate in the country was the highest in 26 years. More people are living in poverty than in the previous decade.

The report adds that racial prejudice in law enforcement and the judicial system has also occurred, while discrimination against Muslims is increasing as well. Some immigrants live in misery, and ethnic hate crimes are not uncommon.

As the world's biggest arms seller, US deals has been fueling great instability across the globe. The report quoted a US Congress report as saying that its 2008 foreign weapons sales figures soared to 37.8 billion dollars from a year earlier, up nearly 50 percent. That accounts for more than 68 percent of all global arms deals.

Some analysts believe these figures show "the US not only has a bad domestic human rights record, but also is a major source of many human rights disasters around the world."

China is advising the US government to "draw lessons from history, put itself in a correct position, strive to improve its own human rights conditions, and rectify its acts in the human rights field."