US drops China from list of top human rights abusers AND blasts China for alleged torture

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"The United States dropped China from its list of the world's worst human rights violators, but added Syria, Uzbekistan and Sudan to its top 10 offenders in an annual report released Tuesday.

Despite removing Beijing from its top blacklist, the State Department's 2007 Human Rights Report said China, which has raised hopes internationally that it would improve human rights by hosting the 2008 Olympics, still had a poor record overall.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the report was aimed at highlighting the struggle for human rights around the world.

"In the long run, we are confident that citizens who sacrifice for their dignity and their rights will prevail, just as the Havels and the Mandelas did before them," Rice told reporters."

But apparently some tree hugging cheese eating surrender monkey country called the United States had this to say about China:

"The United States branded China an authoritarian human rights abuser Tuesday, citing alleged torture, state control of basic aspects of daily life, tight controls on religion and harassment of foreign charities.

China, host of the summer Olympics, has rampant and chronic human rights problems despite rapid economic growth that has transformed large parts of Chinese society, the State Department said in its annual accounting of human rights practices around the world.

The world's most populous nation, China is an increasingly important U.S. trade partner and a chief competitor with the United States for energy and shrinking natural resources. It is the object of broad U.S. economic and diplomatic outreach, with mixed results.

The United States, other nations and outside advocacy groups have tried to use the world media attention and prestige associated with the Olympics to leverage internal change and diplomatic cooperation from China, but the games are barely mentioned in the human rights report."

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hpID9Dgsq3k9j7zbQMh3GHMyZTjQ
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080311/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_human_rights

[Arctic Dave]

1. Golly, who would have guessed.

The US would get down on its knees and take the money shot from China. Just goes to show you who the real boss is. Next we will be saying everybody should be more like them.:puke: