China has accused the United States of having double standards on human rights, ahead of the release of a controversial Senate report on the CIA’s use of torture in the years following the September 11 attacks.
The 480-page US Senate intelligence committee report is due to be released on Tuesday and is expected to lay bare how the CIA used “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as waterboarding in an attempt to obtain intelligence from terror suspects.
Even before its release Xinhua, China’s official news agency, published a lengthy editorial detailing what it said were the United States' human rights failings.
The US' behaviour at home and abroad – including “attacks on foreign soil in its anti-terror campaigns” had "drawn international concern,” Xinhua noted.
"America is neither a suitable role model nor a qualified judge on human rights issues in other countries, as it pertains to be,” the Beijing-run outlet added. “Yet, despite this, people rarely hear the US talking about its own problems, preferring to be vocal on the issues it sees in other countries, including China.” Full story...
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The 480-page US Senate intelligence committee report is due to be released on Tuesday and is expected to lay bare how the CIA used “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as waterboarding in an attempt to obtain intelligence from terror suspects.
Even before its release Xinhua, China’s official news agency, published a lengthy editorial detailing what it said were the United States' human rights failings.
The US' behaviour at home and abroad – including “attacks on foreign soil in its anti-terror campaigns” had "drawn international concern,” Xinhua noted.
"America is neither a suitable role model nor a qualified judge on human rights issues in other countries, as it pertains to be,” the Beijing-run outlet added. “Yet, despite this, people rarely hear the US talking about its own problems, preferring to be vocal on the issues it sees in other countries, including China.” Full story...
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