{"id":2776,"date":"2014-12-11T07:39:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T12:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2014-12-11T07:39:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T12:39:42","slug":"china-says-u-s-cant-slam-others-on-rights-when-it-has-racism-problems-at-home-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2776","title":{"rendered":"China says U.S. can&#8217;t slam others on rights when it has racism problems at home | Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/12\/11\/us-china-usa-rights-idUSKBN0JP0S820141211\">China says U.S. can&#8217;t slam others on rights when it has racism problems at home | Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">China&#8217;s foreign ministry said on Thursday that the United States has no right to confront other countries on their human rights records when it faces problems with racism and mistreatment of prisoners at home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">Both U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. ambassador to<span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\"><a class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\" style=\"color: #006e97; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/places\/china?lc=int_mb_1001\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">China<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Max Baucus issued statements on Wednesday to mark International Human Rights Day in which they mentioned cases such as the imprisoned Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said it was hypocritical of the United States to do this considering its own poor record, in apparent reference to recent protests over the killings of unarmed black men and a U.S. Senate report on the torture of detainees after the Sept. 11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">&#8220;The United States has no right to pose as arbiters and at every turn point their fingers at other countries&#8217; human rights as racism and mistreatment of prisoners and other serious problems in the United States are facts now known to all,&#8221; Hong told a daily news briefing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\"><span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\"><a class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\" style=\"color: #006e97; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/places\/china?lc=int_mb_1001\" data-ls-seen=\"1\">China<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and the United States often spar about each other&#8217;s human rights records, and on Wednesday, Beijing urged Washington to &#8220;correct its ways&#8221; following the torture report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:WordDocument>\n  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n  <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:UseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin\/>\n <\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: LucidaGrande; color: #282828;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 23px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\"><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China says U.S. can&#8217;t slam others on rights when it has racism problems at home | Reuters. 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