Beijing: Chinese government on Monday strongly refuted the Unites States’ human rights report and called China-related part in the report as unfounded and full of bias.
Speaking to the media, Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Geng Shuang said “We firmly oppose the report and have lodged solemn representations with the US side”.
The US State Department, last week, released an annual report on global human rights Friday, which pointed a finger at China and some other countries.
Talking about how China attaches great importance to protecting and promoting human rights, the spokesperson said “We have scored tremendous achievements in this since the founding of new China, which cannot be denied by anyone without political prejudice”.
Geng further added that we always maintain that countries should conduct dialogue and exchanges on human rights on the basis of equality and mutual respect for the purpose of mutual learning and joint progress.
Meanwhile, he also urged the US to be objective and unbiased about China's human rights condition and stop interfering in China's domestic affairs using human rights as an excuse.
The US human rights report also singled Hong Kong and Macao out for criticism, to which, Geng said it is totally wrong for the US report to make groundless accusation against SAR affairs. The Chinese side is strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposed to that, he added.
He stressed once again that both Hong Kong and Macao are China's SARs whose affairs belong to China's domestic affairs, and that the US has no right to interfere.
The United States in report has accused China of “encroaching” on Hong Kong’s autonomy. “The most important human rights problem reported was the central government’s encroachment on Hong Kong’s autonomy,” the report said.
The China and the United States relations have become fragile after US President Donald Trump had taken office in January over his communications with Taiwan, the independence of which is not recognized by China, as well as, Trump's criticism on various issues including China’s military build-up in the South China Sea.
