China has slammed the United States’ human rights record and called the 2016 presidential election a farce according to the country’s yearly report.
The U.S. presidential election reflected the “full exposure of the hypocritical nature of U.S. democracy”. “In 2016, money politics and power-for-money deals had controlled the presidential election, which was full of lies and farces,” the report said.
China’s state council information office published its summary of perceived U.S. human rights violations on Friday in response to Washington’s criticisms of Beijing last week.
The annual report, which paints a sorry tale of the U.S. political system, sourced most its allegations of human rights abuses from U.S. media outlets. Many of which are either frequently attacked by Beijing or blocked in the country altogether.
China’s report, which accuses the White House of a range of offenses from corruption to racism and police brutality, also criticized Washington for posing as the global “judge of human rights” while committing the same offenses both domestically and internationally.
“With the gunshots lingering in people’s ears behind the Statue of Liberty, worsening racial discrimination and the election farce dominated by money politics, the self-proclaimed human rights defender has exposed its human rights ‘myth’ with its own deeds,” the report said.
The U.S often criticizes Beijing’s human rights record, arbitrary detentions, wide-ranging corruption, brutality and curtailing the freedoms of citizens in both Hong Kong and Macau.
