China releases counter-report on US human rights

Interesting, though I'm afraid few countries in these world will ever achieve a good human rights record. Face it, we are less savages compared to 2000 years ago, but we are still far away from reaching true 'civilization'.

Every one of those issues is being intensely debated in the US at present. All the Chines government had to do was subscribe to a cross section of US publications, view a range of US web sites, choose up sides and summarize the results to construct their own assessment. This is little more then a smug propaganda ploy on the part of a repressive and increasingly unstable regime. If any Chinese activist attempt to address similar issues in China they would quickly be stifled. Take for example what happened to early HIV/AIDS activists in China, or what is going on in Hong Kong at the moment. With the exception of North Korea, there are very few legitimate grounds on which China can comment on other countries human rights issues.

Totally true acquiunk (although that doesn't make the 'errors' in the human right record of any country, like the US, acceptable). Although China is becoming more and more capitalistic, the human rights record is bad. Political opponents are 'not welcome' (understatement), there is no real independent media, nor can people really say what they want to say.
The National Geographic had a good article about environmental problems in China, but the article also shows how powerless people are. I talked with a good Chinese female friend of my today and she also said that the Communist regime is hated by a lot of Chinese, although the Communists were hated more 50 years ago than now. Her grandmother for example died in Cultural Revolution.
Sadly enough, nowadays economical benefits seem to be more important than human rights. And with the Chinese economy becoming more and more important, I'm afraid human rights won't improve, without the world saying something about it.