China News Service, Beijing, April 13 (Xie Yanbing and Xing Chong) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian hosted a regular press conference on April 13.
The US State Department released the 2021 Country Report on Human Rights on the 12th, attacking China's political system and human rights situation.
A reporter asked questions at the press conference that day.
Zhao Lijian: The content of the so-called "Country Human Rights Report" by the US and Secretary Blinken's remarks on China are full of political lies and ideological prejudice. China is strongly dissatisfied and firmly opposed to it.
How China's human rights situation is, the Chinese people have a steel scale in their hearts; how well the Chinese government is capable of governance has long been seen by the international community.
None of this can be slandered by a few words or a report issued by some people in the United States.
However, the US government uses so-called human rights reports to slander China year after year, attack many countries and places in the world, and try to portray itself as a "human rights judge" and "human rights benchmark", but this just exposes the hypocrisy and double standards of the US.
When it comes to respecting and protecting human rights, the United States is full of debts and crimes at home and abroad.
Internally, human rights are an empty promise that the US government has never cashed.
The United States has the most advanced medical equipment and technology in the world, but it has become the country with the highest number of new coronary pneumonia infections and deaths in the world.
The U.S. government did not plan to fight the epidemic, it engaged in political manipulation, clamored for the leak of the virus in the laboratory, and allowed the "virus" of racism in the United States to spread together with the new crown virus, resulting in the frequent occurrence of anti-Asian hate crimes.
The United States has long pursued discriminatory immigration policies, which severely squeezed the living space of Hispanic, Asian and African immigrants; the immigration policy of "separation of flesh and blood", inhuman treatment such as extended detention, torture and forced labor seriously endangers the lives, dignity and freedom of immigrants .
There are many problems of gun violence in the United States, unfair law enforcement, prison abuse and other phenomena are frequent, and the American people live in fear of lack of security.
Externally, human rights are a fig leaf for the US government to pursue hegemony.
The subversive acts and wars of the United States have created a flood of refugees, with more than 2 million refugees in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria alone.
More than 900,000 people have lost their lives in the so-called "anti-terrorism" war waged by the United States for 20 years.
The US military operation against Afghanistan has not only claimed more than 100,000 lives, but also US$7 billion in life-saving money for the Afghan people.
The human rights tragedies created by America's secret network of prisons around the world have left the world in an uproar.
In the context of the impact of the new crown epidemic on the world economy, the United States still uses human rights as an excuse and sanctions as a means to pressure and threaten other countries.
This not only aggravates the humanitarian crisis in the relevant countries, but also threatens the global economic recovery and the stability of the industrial and supply chains.
What the US should do is to immediately stop pointing fingers, attacking and slandering the human rights of other countries, earnestly self-examination and reform, and truly do something useful to improve the US's own human rights situation and the healthy development of the international human rights cause.
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