Human Rights

The US State Department issued its annual global human rights report, which says that China's already poor human rights record has deteriorated further. China's Foreign Ministry spokesman said the U.S. annual report "again ignored basic facts", and willfully distorted and groundlessly criticized China's human rights situation. A spokesman for Hong Kong's Consitutional Affairs Bureau also rejected the US report on Hong Kong's constitutional development, claiming that "Hong Kong's electoral arrangements are part of our internal affairs". Later, the Information Office of the State Council, for the eighth consecutive year, published a report on "Human Rights Record of the United States in 2006" It appears that the Chinese efforts are not aimed at pushing the US to improve its human rights, but rather for the Foreign Ministry spokesman to make the following point: "We suggest the US should reflect on its own human rights problems, and stop interfering in the internal affairs of other countries on the pretext of human rights,"