Originally published June 1, 2012.
By Fareed Zakaria
Last week, the U.S. State Department released its annual report on human rights around the world. It covers nearly 200 countries, from Tunisia and Egypt and their uprisings, to North Korea and Cuba and the repression in those nations.
The report is an annual State Department tradition, going back nearly four decades. And for the last 13 years, it has been followed immediately by another tradition: a rebuttal.
China has released its own report on America. It says Washington is full of "overcritical" remarks about the world and "turns a blind eye to its own woeful human rights situation."
Let's flip through the two reports…
On the State Department’s report, the China section begins by listing state-sponsored killings, political arrests, known cases of torture, and disappearances. It says Beijing does not respect civil liberties, documenting known restrictions on freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and censorship.
Beijing's report, by contrast, talks about the Occupy Wall Street movement — that its protesters were treated in a "rude and violent" way.
OK, not sure how that's a human rights violation.
Beijing's report also points to the homicide rate in the U.S., going into great length about how the U.S. is a world leader in gun violence.
Again, that's not really a violation of human rights — that's what human beings sometimes do with rights. It may be bad public policy, but it's not tyranny.
But let's not simply dismiss Beijing's report.
On the contrary, I think it would make fascinating reading for Americans, because a lot of the problems the Chinese point out are indeed real problems, whether or not they are violations of human rights.
The report points out, for example, that with 5% of the world's population, we own between 35% and 50% of its civilian-owned guns.
That's crazy and should make us all pause.
The report says the U.S. has the largest prison population in the world per capita, and the highest rate of incarceration. One out of every 132 Americans is behind bars.
The Chinese report criticizes us for high unemployment, for widening the gap between rich and poor — again, not a human rights issue, but an important critique of American society.
The report goes on to criticize our health care system, saying 50 million Americans lack insurance.
It reports education spending cuts. School budgets in New York City have been cut an average of 14% a year for the last five years.
The Chinese say minorities suffer disproportionately in America: 11% of Hispanics are unemployed, 16% of African Americans are jobless.
The report cites inequalities between the sexes, saying women get paid 77 cents on average for every dollar paid for men.
These are all issues worth examining, discussing, and — when possible — improving. America has many problems it needs to fix.
Of course, it would be equally important for the Chinese public to read the State Department report on China. Could a Chinese news network put it on its website maybe?
No, of course not. The report is banned in China, and any website that would dare to publish it would be censored and punished. Now that is an abridgment of freedom of expression — and an example of what a human rights violation looks like.
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We have high incarceration rates compared to the Chinese because we don't make defendants "disappear" or murder them before a trial with a jury of their peers.
I think the divide between rich and poor is wider in China, largely because of real estate speculation that has occurred over the last 20 years. That will soon come to an end with the likely hood of a bubble. Smart money will be converted into dollars or gold, and both will take flight.
No one should be that worried about gun ownership. After all–this is trite–people kill people, though guns are the choice of many.
Matt A. – Six people got blown away by some deranged gunman the other day here in Seattle. If so many guns weren't available, it would be harder for some to kill. It's a lot easier to shoot a gun at someone, than to get up close and personal with something else. We need some f-ing gun control in this country. You people treat gun ownership like a religion, while tacitly supporting DOMESTIC TERRORISM. Hunting is one thing, cops having what they need is another. But not everyone needs an assault rifle.
It's not a religion, it's a RIGHT....
In the UK, they got rid of guns and now thugs have beat people to death, kicked, or used knives.
Getting rid of guns doesn't get rid of murders. I once believed in gun control until my brother went to school for criminal justice. He told me repeated studies have been done on guns in America by FBI and other organizations. And nothing could prove taking away guns reduces crime.
I don't have time to google the studies he gave me. I just remember he said the lowest crime rate in America happens to also be in the location of highest gun ownership. I think it was Vermont. But after reading some real research on it, I no longer support control.
I just put this out there for those interesting in actually studying the issue.
BS, people will kill no matter what is at their disposal, using guns is just an excuse. As for China trying to call out the US. ok that’s like calling the kettle black. China has no room what’s so ever to talk about Human Rights when people either disappear or are murdered out right. The reason there is no accurate count on Chinese prisons is because China goes to great lengths to cover up and hide the truth. Thank you for trying China, but you are a much worst nation when it comes to taking care of their own. We don’t lock people up for speaking out, we don’t sensor our media, we don’t murder people out right.
We were given the right to have one to defend ourselves against a government like china's. Put that gun on a table..it will never harm anyone unless a human gets it and shoots someone. If you take away the right to have one only the criminals will have them. Put a little thougfht into what you're saying. What you're saying is very simplistic.
If they for the sake of argument got rid of guns, are you saying people couldn't kill each other? Knives, baseball bats, cut gas/break lines, strangulation, poison, and thats just a few ways.
The people who own guns are licensed and registered. Criminals are not. There is no correlation between registered gun owners and crime.
And Fareed, for someone who wants to be taken seriously as a journalist:
"The report points out, for example, that with 5% of the world's population, we own between 35% and 50% of its civilian-owned guns.
That's crazy and should make us all pause."
What's crazy, do you know the US's history? The whole reason why we have the right to bear arms? Way to sensationalist it up, like a newbie newsie pal.
The phenomenon of rampage killings is universal. In the U.S. fire arms are mostly used. In China the killers are armed with knives or similar weapons. The number of victims are then lower, as they can run away from the killers. So fire arms are tools and psychopathy is a personal problem, but it hurts also the society.
"It's a lot easier to shoot a gun at someone, than to get up close and personal with something else."
Do you have any idea how many gun related killings are close up and personal? Most people who don't regularly handle firearms, couldn't hit the broad side of a barn from 20 or more feet away.
Clearly you are a Democrat and you opinion is based on emotion, not facts. People will kill people with or without guns. LIke another commenter says the lowest crime rates are in the areas with the largest percentage of gun owners. What America needs is more people armed with facts instead of liberal emotions. If gun ownership in America went up 1,000% a lot of the violent crime in America would just go away. That is not to say that felons should be allowed to own guns, but law abiding citizens. Now if you had a rapist come at you with a stick and you had a gun, how successful do you think the rapist would be? If a bank robber came into a bank with a rock but everyone else was armed including the security guard with the assualt riffle, what are the odds that the bank gets robbed. My guess is pretty small. Stop trying to pass naieve emotions off as facts when the actual facts don't support your argument.
Please, you show your ignorance. An assault rifle is, by definition, a military weapon that is fully automatic (i.e., you hold the trigger, it keeps firing). To LEGALLY own one, it has to have been made prior to 1986, and you have to have a special license for it. What you are referring to is a semi-automatic rifle that is cosmetically similar to a military assault rifle.
That being said, you still miss the point. If the nutjob in Seattle wanted to kill a bunch of people, he's going to do it. He chose a gun. A pipe bomb would actually have been more effective, and easier to procure due to the vast array of homemade explosives that are possible, coupled with the extreme ease of purchasing pipe and nails (i.e. shrapnel).
That's ok though. Believe how you will. I respect your right to not like guns, however irrational it is. I respect it so much, that I refuse to use mine to protect those that would rather I not have it.
If you look at the 2nd Amerndment, you will not find the word "need" anywhere in it. I'm not required to demonstrate a need to exercise my rights.
D.Darko, those six people that were killed were killed at nearly point blank range. The US already has gun control laws, you can't own a firearm if you have a record of mental illness, violent criminal record or drug abuse record, age, etc... What more do you want.
Do you even know what an Assault Rifle is? It is a rifle that can switch between a semi-automatic and fully automatic and has a detachable magazine. The guns that you see that are patterened after M16's and AK's are not assault rifles, they are nothing more then Semi-automatic only rifles.
You should also be aware that your average hunting rifle is a lot more powerful then your average Assault Rifle.
Another fact you should know is that Assault Rifles make up less than 1% of all gun crime in the US.
The right to keep and bear arms was never intended to protect hunters. You may not like guns, and nobody is forcing you to own one, but it's not your place to impose that desire for security over freedom on others. The rate of violent crime in this country has far less to do with access to guns than it does with the culture itself. If the gunman in Seattle was unable to get a gun, do you think his homicidal rage would disappear, or do you think he would have found another way to kill? The same mindset that makes him a threat to society makes him unlikely to abide by it's laws. He would have made a bomb, or found an illegal firearm, or devised some other means to carry out his crime.
States with higher gun ownership have lower crime and violence. The state of Virginia which is very liberal on gun ownership has great safety and very polite young people who address elders as "sir" rather than with a baseball bat over the head.
anyone who thinks gun control is a solution any problem is a fool. do you think the u.n. and china's quest for world wide gun control is because they care about the homicide rate in this country
The right to protect yourself is the most basic of rights and is at the heart of democracy. If you want to get rid of everything that might be misused to harm others you better ban cars as well. They kill just as many people but they are necessary. So is self defense to freedom.
I will keep my rifle you can keep your opinions.
RLGTULSA, Its not a right, its a wrong.
Oh sure, let's just ban guns and then criminals wont get them. WRONG ANSWER. The human is the one who does the killing, why do you choose to blame the tool? Study gun control in the UK and Austraila, both were a total failure and led to increases in violent crime.
The NRA is a homegrown terrorist organization which has a permanent foothold in the USA. If you hear a gunshot ... duck. Also avoid Florida.
Until the government does more about the blacks in this country i am going to keep buying guns. Blacks are like the pitbulls or humanity.
With the exception of the f-bomb well said and so true!!
Gun rights protect every other right that citizens have, enough said!!!!!!!!!!!
I can barely stand to read the ignorance, parroting of myths, and hatred that spews from these CNN boards. But with so many citing gun "facts," let's look at them. There's no correlation between gun ownership and lower crime rates. NONE. What we can say is there's a strong correlation between gun ownership rates and murder rates. A STRONG one, as you'll see if you choose to actually look at real facts versus parrot the NRA, GOP, FOX, etc. Whether the correlation means higher gun ownership rates lead to higher murder rates, or whether higher murder rates lead to gun ownership nobody can say for sure, but the answer should be obvious to a thinking, open mind.
http://factcheck.org/2008/03/violent-crimes-and-handgun-ownership/
I don't NEED an assault rifle, I like to take it to the gun range and shoot it...ZERO reason for me not to do what I like if I'm not hurting anyone. The same analogy (normal pistol v assault rifle) could apply to saying no one "needs" a hotrod that can do 0-60 in under 6 seconds v a 4-cyclinder Toyota (both get can get you from point A to point B)...people like to take that hotrod to the dragstrip. You think we should take those away as well?
Gun nuts have taken the "right to bear arms" totally out of context from what the Founding Fathers meant, but then, remember the last part of their name – they are truly nuts. Gun ownership should be limited to rifles and shotguns and then only single shot ones. People could hunt but try sticking someone up by sneaking up on them with a rife. The US leads the world in gun nuts, in fact we may be the only producers of such shame.
well if america wasnt such wusses like you they would have been packin, shot the idot, and sent him to ME!
loser
You are right, less guns would reduce gun violence. I guess if all he had was a stolen SUV he wouldn't be able to hurt anyone. But then again I bet running someone over on the sidewalk or crashing through a bulding would be much less effective. The SUV would have a much higher kill ratio than a gun.
We may need are weapons some day to defend are freadom .
an interesting fact....
people killed other poeple long before guns were invented...remember swords, crossbows, axes, bow and arrow.
get over it
the bad guys will have guns no matter what law you pass. At least give the good guys a fighting chance to defend themselves. GOP in 2012!
"He told me repeated studies have been done on guns in America by FBI and other organizations. And nothing could prove taking away guns reduces crime."
Of course these studies were funded by gun lobby...Show me an honest study conducted in the US.
@RLGTULSA, it's only a right if it's for the security of a free state. Gun lobbyists (apparently like you) made the decision that that 1 sentence that is the 2nd Amendment unequivocally meant that citizens could own guns. If it was so unequivocal, there wouldn't be debate about it. So it's only a "right" as long as the Supreme Court says it is. The funny thing about your precious rights is that they aren't rights. You're ALLOWED to own guns, you will relinquish them when the government tells you to.
Great idea, lets take away all the guns from private citizens so we can be safe and secure just like the Chinese! Do liberals ever think before they speak?
@John, before you make a statemnt about people not thinking mayber you should know the facts. 90% of guns involved in a crime are straw purchases so now I know its hard for you to open your mind John if you ban the sale fo guns it would be that much harder for criminals to get guns. The right to bear arms was written to protect us against England not for every day citizens to purchase guns legally than sell to other people.
We do have gun control, and alot of it. But we don't enforce the gun laws we have now. The problem is not enough gun laws it is the lack of enforcement. But having said that, do you really think that a gun law that would prohibit the use of a gun in a murder (already on laws on the books in every state) would have deterred this cretin? If so then you need an edcuation. Do you ever speed, ever jaywalk, ever cheat just alittle on your taxes. Those laws don't deter you now do they.
I believe there are something like 60 million gun owners in the United States. There are also about 9,000 murders a year in this country or about 30 a day. Assuming all of those murders involved guns; that means 59,999,970 gun owners didn't kill anyone today. I doubt stricter gun control is going to make much difference.
Sounds like you need better education in WA.
No need to go destroying the rest of the country because you can't handle problems in your state.
The biggest deterrent to an invasion is an armed society. Ever city in America has at least 100 unknown well trained snipers. China would love for us to outlaw guns.
I agree that assault rifles are extreme, but i'm convinced that if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns. they steal them.
First off. The people in seattle got killed by hand guns. Second it is illegal to own FULLY automatic assault rifles in this country. You apparently don't know much about gun laws or local news for that matter. No body is taking away anyones guns away.
Hey "Just me", did your brother take criminal justice classes at CLOWN COLLEGE? Or was it BARBER COLLEGE? Go take a look at gun homicides by country and compare it with a list of countries gun control laws. I did. The United States has 4.77 homicides per 100,000 (and remember that's per year. So a person living to 50 has a 1-2000 chance of being killed by someone with a gun,). I went through about 25-40 countries, The closest U.S. homicide rate I found from a country with moderate to strict gun control laws was Canada at .71 per 100,000, or 700% better than that of the U.S. Then I checked their intentional homicide rate and found out it was 300% better than the U.S.
The 37 countries with the highest intentional homicides had little gun control laws. The bottom 41 with the lowest rates had moderate to strict gun control laws.
Weird coincidence, huh? LOL
Outlaw guns and only outlaws will have guns. Then what?
Almost nobody knows what an assault rifle is. You should take a look at the law. It's actually laughable. What they should have called it was " a big mean looking gun" law. Has nothing to do with the function of the gun. More about the look of the mean scary guns. Quite funny.
Who here has heard of the war on drugs it is a perfect way to show the flaw in gun control. 21,865 metric tons of illegal drugs cross our border every year and after 40years we have not even made a dent. An AK 47 weighs 8lbs loaded if they change to smuggling guns that would be over 6,000,000 loaded AK47's every year. Now who wants to tell me that the bad guys won't have guns? Murder is against the law it has not stoped people from shoting each other. 30,000 people have been burn, hanged, chainsawed and even boiled alive in Mexico in the last 5 years Should they ban fire, rope, chainsaws and water.We bult a lot of houses be for we had nail guns, and we murdered alot more people before we had guns.
post like these are what lead people to false conclusions and give gun owners a bad stereotype. First of do some research and don't speak out your ass. Less guns doesn't mean less gun violence. Criminals will always have guns and weapons. That's what the black market is for. Criminals can technically get anything they want behind big brothers back. If you do research there have been studies were people were given guns, and the test results showed lower crime rate in that area. Who is going to want to commit a crime if they know the victim might have a gun pointing back at them. Most robberies involving a gun are done because the criminal knows the victim wont have a gun and is totally defenseless.
Ok here is the other point of view. Look at Libya and these other 3rd world countries fighting for there rights. Who's to say years down the road the government doesn't become corrupt? Guess who's job it is to keep the government in check. That's right us. If somehow the government points their guns at us what can we do against that fire power if we got rid of guns? nothing!
You people look for some excuse to why these problems are happening usually the blame points to an object not the people. And you don't look at the consequences that taking away a simple object, such as a gun, may have. You may not own guns or have desire to, but think before you speak. Just because you don't rely on said tool doesn't mean others don't. Maybe if we kept these criminals off the streets and occupied them with something useful like a job, they wouldn't have time to be living the life of a thug.
I cannot argue more gun safety is needed. More education never hurt anything. Taking guns isn't a solution.
Hey genius,
Drunk drivers kill lots of people to.Your enjoyment about gun control is sad.Hitler used gun control and look what happened there.Instead of gun control how about executing murders that use guns.A speedy trial then an execution.That would cut down gun violence!
Come off of it man. Stop blaming the guns. Killers kill people. Gun ownership does not make ANYBODY a killer. There's nothing about owning a gun that comes with a disclaimer, "Ownership may lead you to murder numerous people." It makes it easier, oh well. You want to punish everybody because of what others choose to do with it. Let's PRETEND guns vanish and murder by knife spikes immensely, 300% or so. Would you want to ban kitchen knives too?
The genie is out of the bottle, they have passed conceal and carry laws in most states and the republicans think it is their right to walk around with an uzi. The culture will have to change before the laws do. We are just going to have to wait a generation for these old f@rts to die off. Their numbers are dwindling, soon they won't be a force. Then we can fix this problem, just like we had to at the turn of the last century when we passed all those laws so you couldn't carry guns in public.
"The report points out, for example, that with 5% of the world's population, we own between 35% and 50% of its civilian-owned guns." 50.001%. I just bought two more yesterday. One for my son's birthday and one for me.
Would you rather they were pushed out of windows?
Typical liberal hogwash.
You think by making something illegal it won't happen.
Here's what would happen:
Only the honest people would respect and obey these gun laws you'd like to see.
When in history has legislation made somethign go away?...
Precisely the opposite.......you create a black market for it and not only do the gun sale flourish, but you've created a whole new branch of organized crime and a huge increase in violence that goes with it.
You can't make the guns go away in this country .....ever!
Your best bet if it bothers you that much, ....is to move to great britain.
The UK banned guns. Illegal gun factories and a black market for guns emerged. Criminals will get guns if they want them, no matter what restrictions are enacted. Guns are a great equalizer. A small, physically weak person can overpower a large strong person with a gun. Without guns, we would revert back to an era where brute strength reigns supreme and the strong can always overpower the weak. Also, civilian gun ownership ensures that a foreign invasion would result in a bloodbath. China is a growing power, and it's good that they are well aware of the high number of civilian owned guns in our country.
it is not a religion, religions are for idiots. This is a RIGHT to take away that right is the act of more idiots.
@ Matt. If someone were so inclined they could kill a lot more than 6 people using an every day common automobile and a busy city sidewalk. the point is if someone wants to kill for the sake of killing and wants a high body count then a gun is not the best weapon.
By all means...ban all the guns. If it works, maybe we can ban crime after that. :\
Maybe you should review your history on countries that took guns away from their citizens. Then have a discussion on human rights....
You need to do some research on "Gun Control". Your statistics are completely wrong. Look at crime in Australia since they made it illegal for people to own handguns. The crime rate has skyrocketed in home invasions and especially in crimes against the elderly. Compare that with Switzerland, a country where every household is ISSUED a rifle... you'll notice it has one of the lowest crime rates in the entire world. As for the prison population in this country, the answer is crystal clear: Google "Prisons for profit" and you'll see that our country has privatized the prison system and there are literally QUOTAS that have to be met in imprisoning American citizens in order to generate certain amounts of tax revenue and federal grants. Imprisoning people is a BUSINESS in this country and it is sickening. Do some research D.Darko, somewhere other than your local coffee shop chat group.
I am not for less guns but I do think that waiting periods, stress testing, mandatory training and background checks are necessary. Any way you look at it, the bad guys are always going to be able to get their hands on guns. But the people who own them legally should have the training necessary to use them without accidentally shooting their own wife in the dark or flip out over a stranger changing a flat on the other side of his fence. True stories. And laws should reflect that a justified shooting requires more than just feeling threatened.
all that will accomplish is limiting access to LEGAL guns. Most crimes are committed with illegally obtained weapons. You can't regulate the black market. Making it harder for law abiding citizens to buy guns seems pointless.
Greg, all guns have serial numbers etched into them. Many guns seized from criminals and actually used to commit crimes can be traced to LEGAL gun shows that operate in a few select states where there is minimal, if any, ID check and no waiting time. Until these LEGAL loopholes are closed by legislation suggested by the original commentor, bad people will continue to obtain firearms LEGALLY to commit crimes or just blow someone away when they get angry. Seattle averages 20 homicides each year in a city of 600k people. Baltimore has the same population and averages > 200 homicides per year. Guns account for > 90% of homicides. It's harder to kill with a knife, bat, etc. because if it was just as easy, guns would account for just 30% of homicides (guns, strangulation, "other").
And MD has some pretty restrictive gun laws and it's virtually impossible to get a CCW permit to be able to carry a gun that you legally purchased.
You want to talk about gun laws and legislation. I moved from Illinois to Missouri because I was fed up with the politics. Corrupt politicians dare tell me that I don't have a right to defend myself. They pass laws that say I have to wait to pick up my purchased firearm, they've even debated placing restrictions on one's ability to purchase ammo. Over Memorial day weekend some 30+ people were shot in the streets of Chicago. Why? Because criminals have guns, they shoot other criminals, but they're terrible shots so kids get caught in the cross fire. You know what would actually make that city safe? The inconceivable concept of citizens walking the streets with guns, so these criminals finally get to meet their maker. Don't worry, when the time comes and the citizens of Illinois are finally recognized their God given right to own, bear, and carry guns as they please, we'd be more than happy to draft legislation that bans such citizens from protecting you if you're ever shot at by one of Chicago's gang members.
Just to give you a clearer picture. If I traveled to Illinois, with my firearm at my side carrying my concealed weapons endorsement that's recognized in 36 states, 37 once Wisconsin figures out it's plans, and I actually shot someone not out self-defense of myself but of let's say the governor himself; you know that I would be charged as a felon for conspiracy to commit murder, illegal possession of a weapon, and probably a whole slue of other crimes. Never-mind that I just saved the governor's life, the fact that I'm carrying a gun means that I'm some deranged crazy psychopath out to kill everyone I see. In what way do you call that justice and in what way to you term the current laws in Illinois as sensible or even slightly rational?
Not all people who have guns are bad and if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have them. I believe in common sense laws with guns. If a felon wants a gun, then first see if he or she is a violent felon, that should give you some indication. Everyone should have the right to bear some kind of arms to protect themselves and their family, but if a person is violent, they should not be allowed to have a gun, but they will still be able to have a knife or a sword, which will never be stopped period.
The Chinese report does point out some issues that are right and our leaders should take heed because they are true. I agree that there is to much money equals power in all of our system and this needs to be addressed. Money is not everything and people need to just stop being so greedy and selfish. This country was not built on the winner take all mentality, but the hard work mentality. The ones at the top do not work that hard and yet prosper more than they should.
We have a high incarceration rate as a result of the failed war on Marijuana. It is the result of a partnership between prison investors and politicians – a very good way to bilk the public's tax dollars to jail it's fellow citizens and take them out of the work force!
California has basically legalized marijuana use. For $100 you can get a note from a Kush Doctor and go and buy your pot from a dispensory. Do you think it would be any easier if it were legal? Do you think it has had ANY effect on the incarceration or crime rate in California? You need to find a better excuse to legalize drugs.
Incarcerating people for non-violent marijuana "crimes" is a violation of their human rights. Mandatory sentencing laws inflict cruel and unusual punishment on citizens by taking away their liberty and burdening them with felonies, while enriching a private system of prisons that have become big business. Addiction is a medical condition, yet we imprison addicts, putting them in cages, as we put the mentally ill in cages centuries ago. U.S. drug laws are barbaric and inhumane.
Dab: addicts who are imprisoned aren't really there for using drugs. They are there to keep them from stealing everyone blind so they can support their habit. People can obtain treatment for their addiction(s). If they fail to do so and continue to steal so they can use, they should be locked up. I'm not going to pay for anyone's habit. Addiction is the only medical condition that is entirely brought on by the sufferer. Maybe detox and rehab clinics should be staffed by high school and middle school student volunteers to scare the crap out of kids so they never even start.
Oh NO! were in trouble now, China is checking on our humane rights.
Talk less on human right, but do more loving China as our forefathers did. We Americans are becoming such hypocrites and the Chinese and the worlds know it.
America is VERY BAD!!!!!! PIECE NO WAR...LOVE JESUS....... BRAZIL
Well put, Lewis. Thank you.
Brazil is worst than the USA
lewis for president. 2012.
USA CHILD KILLERS.....
USA RACIST....
EDUCATION GARBAGE....
VIVA MARTIN LUTHER KING
Quit staring at the sun with your binoculars!!
VIETNAM...IRAQ....BAD WHITE HOUSE
CANARYVILLE CHICAGO RACIST
DO NOT TRUST THE CHINESE PEOPLE or CHINA COUNTRY at all.....War already started between USA and CHINA.. CHINA ALREADY WON so far.. Look at the economy, look at the military of CHINA.. they have a lot of money to build up their military.. CHINA already copy cat our technology/ our secret military weapons.. china ALREADY HACKED into our pentagon database and stolen a lot of SECRET stuffs....CHINA killing us slowly by poisoning our foods, toys,seafoods, paints, clothes......etc.. they sold us cheap stuff and earned a lot of money so that they can build their MILITARY.. when they r strong enough, they will declare war WITH U.S.A. to prove that they r not AFRAID OF THE WESTERN....CHINA ALREADY bully SOUTH EAST ASIA COUNTRY and they planning to steal all of the island and sea to themself... DO NOT BUY "MADE IN CHINA" OR DO NOT BUY China brand name at alll.. DO NOT SUPPORT CHINA..Ultimately, china will FALL DOWN hard.CHINA ALREADY STOLEN Tibetan LAND...
iF U R SMALL and a big person come and bully you.. Don't u want another BIG PERSON come and protecting you.. SAME THING IN THE SOUTH EAST ASIA.. CHINA IS BIG and it's bully the small country such as Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Philippine......etc
Quangxi and Quangdong, province of CHINA used to BELONG to VIETNAM until the CHINESE TOOK OVER more than 2000 YEARS AGO..
Thumb up, if you would like to see CHINA FALLS.... CHINA IS EVIL
China doesn't need to build their military to win a war with the US. They already won by buying 20% of the US's debt.
Hey Listen up. China is a great country and poses no threat to the United States. We need them as much as they need us. We just need to collaborate more. Take space exploration for example. NASA has the technology, China has the funds, we get Russia and Germany to join the effort and we can have an International Moon Base within 10 years.
Let me suggest you read Henry Kissinger's book On China.
This guy must be a butthurt Vietnamese. 2000 years ago? Did your sh!tty land vietnam even existed back then?
Matt A. the kwok head, the fact that your uncle sends the U.S. soldiers to commit crimes against humanity around the world is the biggest human rights violation.
This is a general reply to article-All laws only resrict law abiding citizens-Penalties for breaking the law only punish those who do not abide by the law if caught-they donot prevent NON law abiding citizens from certian acts as long as the benefits out weigh the penalties-Thus the rational for the freedom to bear arms-The non law abiders will most certainly come in possesion of guns(and are)-The law abiders would remain unarmed- An example is- The law against illegal drugs does not prevent anyone from using drugs-Never has -never will-Example Prohibition-It is and always will be an individual choice-The laws against anything -history shows us-Example Prohibtion- only makes them more lucrative (and tax exempt).Creating great fortunes.As Chinas'(and the US) anti pollution laws donot prevent massive pollution of not only their country but impinges on the world.My true concern with this article, and the reason for my comment is, the statement by the author that he can't understand Chinas' inclusion of the" rude and violent" reaction to the Occupy Movement as being a violation of human rights.Maybe my definition of human rights is lacking or incorrect or legally not acceptable-but to me the right to voice concern in the way the Occupy Movement has been compelled to, when no other means have been heard, is not only a human right but obviously an act of desperation in a society that touts freedom of speech but denies the power of the rights of those free talkers to have their desires acted upon.Horrifically and with very little difference, the Occupy Movement participants have been treated as Chinas' citizens are when they dare to speak their minds.Terrorist protocol has been endorsed and implemented by the US against the right to gather to express the right of free speech of a certain group.Although certain groups are indeed allowed to gather and protest without "rude and violent" repercussions (as also true in China)if it serves the Governments' agenda.The US is rapidly becoming a country of double talk where what we say we stand for before the world and what we actually are-are two different things.Everything that China states are our problems-are without question-EVERYTHING-Although the treatment of the free speakers is the only violation of our Human Rights in my mind.
What goes on here? We are the country that judges the rest of the world. The rest of the world has no right to judge the U.S.A. We are the supreme country, with the highest rank, we also believe we do or deserve to outrank the United Nations. We be the boss.
Being "the Boss" does not make us right.
I meant to sujggest we are Not the boss, we only believe we are.
The divide between rich and poor is very high in both China and the US. It is low in Canada, Europe, and Australia. In Canada a truck driver can afford to feed his family, get medical care for his children and send them to college. In the USA we have people working at K-Mart, living in homeless shelters, and watching their children die from untreated diseases.
This is so true. There are so many out of work that workers can easily be taken advantage of, and yet the rich act like they are so gracious to give people minimum wage jobs when in reality it is just the rich getting richer. I know many people with great ideas for businesses for job creation, but they can't even start it because they don't have money, and every rich person wants to take ownership of the ideas without doing the work or thinking themselves.
May have been better if Nixon stayed home.
and if Nixon had let the Soviets conduct their surgical nuclear strike on China
or harvest body organs
We have a high incarceration rate because of our idiotic drug policy. If we treated drug-abuse as a public health issue, rather than a criminal one, our incarceration rate would drop by half over night
China is absolutely right about War criminals state sponsor terrorist thugs USAss x n current regime, atrocities, invasion, destruction, killing, kidnapping, abduction, torturing n keeping defender of their countries men women n children in Jail without justice. Same war criminals state sponsor terrorist thugs so called leaders or lawmakers raise their filthy finger n open their venomous mouth criticising other countries on their human rights, what a shame a worlds biggest terrorist thugs organization critic others while their terrorist activities on peak, the coward using every tool to terrorised n have killed over a million Muslim in IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya n else, n talking about human right. http://www.ifamericansonlyknew.org
Wow.First off you are right Jesus is not grod.He is the son of God,The king of kings and lord of lords.Someday all people (including you radical muslims)will kneel at his feet and declare he is Lord!You muslims go apespit if someone says bad things about your pediphile prophet mohammad.Open your eyes and see all the proof that Jesus is real,and is God's son and will be returning soon.My advice to you is accept Jesus as your savior and dont ride the long black train to hell.Yes we know America has issues.We just need to get the right leadership here.Read John 3:16
Have a nice day!
I don't believe that one country is more correct than another country on this planet. Often times however where you have a passionate difference of opinion is what can lead to wars and violence. America is just as guilty as many other nations in terms of atrocities, America just likes to keep things quiet.
If you control guns in this country now the innocent will suffer. This country is so full of thugs that we need to protect ourselves because the police just can't. This country is turning into the wild west and believe me I don't want to get caught without one.
Nah. Our prisons are full cause of stupid things such as the war on drugs where we are throwing pot heads in jail helping them meet hardened criminals so they become useless members of society.
people who smoke pot all day are useless members of society
If you think any significant number of US prisoners are there just for pot then you need your voting rights taken away from you as you're too 'stoopid' to vote
Anything going on in India, Mr. Fareed Zakaria
Not much.More children born and more quickie marts opening!
China should point out America's daily genocide in Afghnistan and Pakistan. America maims and oblitrates the lives of thousdands of women, children and men through the use of its drones. If this is not a systematic and blatant human rights violation, then God know what human rights violation is. By far, America is the leading human rights violator in every sense of of the phrase. We see it everyday on the news and sadly the world takes America's words.
China is just doing what China does best. Counter accusations.
I just don't understand why people should own assault wapons? What is it that this country is so ademant about having those high powered killing tools in everybodies hands?
Hey captain clueless.Learn what assualt rifles are before you argue them.We dont have millions of machine guns floating around here!!
Fugg that OBAMA!!! You see how they post that picture up in the front where CHINA's flag is on top and the American flag is on the bottom! It's all OBAMAS FAULT! THAT FREEDOM HATER!!!
Right to bear arms is an antiquated "right" that really needs to go a away. Stop worrying, the redcoats are not coming.
Right no red coats just Imperial stormtroopers.America has an open door you can leave.Armed men are citizens unarmed men are subjects!
The biggest difference, and I'm not saying the US does everything right. Our gun laws at a joke, but that said the biggest difference is the fact that we (Americans) can read the reports. In China they are banned.
As a gun owner I think the whole gun debate get's exploded by extremities from both sides of the argument. I believe in the right of civilian arms. However, there are some states, which I will not name, where the only prerequisite to buying one is a driver license... I think at the very least there should be safety and standards classes or background check to make sure there's no history of criminal activity.
Or, dare I say, only be privileged to buy a pistol or assault weapon if service time was spent in the military. Some states have concealed weapon laws.. that has not decreased lethal crime by any means. Besides, pretty much all public and private areas forbid the entry of armed individuals, so unless you just like walking around downtown, armed with a .38, looking for trouble, there's not much you can do with getting arrested if seen armed.
Everyone has their own beliefs however, power to them
Not true. Their incarceration rates are a state secret. As are their number of executions. When has a communist country been honest about such things? Our jails have full access to red cross whatever. China doesn't.
"No, of course not. The report is banned in China, and any website that would dare to publish it would be censored and punished. Now that is an abridgment of freedom of expression — and an example of what a human rights violation looks like."
Mr. Zakaria's final words are so to the point. To further underscore the irony of this report from China – the report content here looks like it was cut and pasted from American studies. Is there anything in this report that we have not published about ourselves already?
Perhaps we should add to their list: And they "borrowed" our copyrighted content...again
Do not make comments with out first hand knowledge. You are speculating. You have no idea on the poor to rich divide. Or how many people they execute in China. I don't know and certainly would not comment on what my feeling and speculations are.
If you want to say that America is the best country in the world just say it. There is no need to say all the others do not measure up that is understood. Now can we make our country better? I do hope my children live in a better America than the one I grew up in, and it is up to us to make it better for them.
Do guns keep us free? In the 70s, Soviet Premiere Leonid Brezhnev ordered the Kremlin to study what it would take to conquer the US. The report concluded that it was possible to knock out and occupy America. However, the Soviets could never hold it. Thousands of militia in the world's most heavily armed civilian population would be impossible to control. The Russians filed the report and any thoughts of an invasion.
I like Fareed's take on things in general and I congratulate CNN for having him on staff. However...... when the US places sanctions on countries like Iraq....... and UNICEF reports that several hundred thousand children died as a "direct" result of those sanctions....is that not a violation of human rights? I know for a fact that Iraqi children went without medicines because of the sanctions. While medicines "were technically allowed" under sanctions.... everyone knew that cancer drugs were always held up at the border because they could be considered dual use. It was also widely reported for years that medicines were not getting through on a regular basis and that much of the medicines that did get through often went bad because the refridgeration was constantly broken down. (Parts for the fridges were denied because they were not allowed. Computer systems that would have helped the country keep track and distribute it's medicines etc were not allowed under sanctions.)
The US still maintained those brutal sanctions even thogh they knew very well that the Iraqi people were being denied basic rights guranteed under international law. That was a crime for which the US and other countries like Canada will never be forgiven.
Oh what a relief! I thought the Chinese were going to tell the whole fairly recent history of the US including the eugenics programs, the testing of drugs and diseases on unaware civillians, the incarcerations of people without trial, the tainting of nature in scientific manipulations, the invasion of privacies, the lack of social services and healthcare, the deliberate lies and propaganda, the manipulation of countries in order to start civil and proxy wars to decimate armies to subjugate nations etc. etc. Oh wait they probably did...but that information has not been released in mainstream media in the West.
Oh! And Fareed you forgot to compare the freedom on the Internet between the two countries:
"U.S. Patriot Act and Homeland Security Act both have clauses about monitoring the Internet, giving the government or law enforcement organizations power to monitor and block any Internet content "harmful to national security."
Compare this with the Chinese.
Matt A, Yeah we know people kill people. But the TOOL that EASILY used to kill people in GUNS. Its so easy to kill people with GUNS rather than knives, baseball bats etc. That's why its banned in many parts of the world for people to own them except for law enforcement.
I have to disagree with the notion that gun ownership is a normal human right. Owning 50% of the worlds civillian guns, then using them for gun violence is NOT A HUMAN RIGHT. I think american culture has fogged the perspective. Most countries restrict gun ownership, especially in cities and urban areas. They don't consider walking around armed to the teeth as a human right. American culture needs to be updated, its noth th 19th century, and we don't live in the wild west. There are no coyotes roaming the streets of Manhattan. In Canada, there is about 10% of the murders, in the largest cities. Some argue because knives are not as effective in killing. So there is a north american country, with freedom and considerably less gun violence. In fact if the USA were to be more restrictive on gun ownership, the number of illegal guns would start to decrease and the already low rates would lower. Guns are not a human right.
The only reason US hasn't been invaded is because other countries don't get off on invasion. Guns or not, has nothing to do with it invasion or human rights.
Back to the real issue, human rights. Both China and US have their issues. Last time I checked, wire taps and other measures taken in the US all in the name of protecting the public against terrorism sounds like human rights abuse to me. US foreign policies that allow drone attacks around the world, killing civilians also sounds like a form of human rights abuse, on wait, thats just more like murder.
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中國GDP早晚要趕上美國成為世界第一
中國國防預算也將超過美國
中國對抗美國的時代會到來
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.....Can't the US ever fix it's own backyard first? Seriously, if America had a decent track record, criticizing's fine.... But the US's human right track record is NOT all sunshine and rainbows, just look at the many wars that that US had been in in the Middle East, and is just pulling out, Guantanamo, police that can detain random people inside the US ect... Does the people that they kill have no rights? What about all the crazy laws in the US? Now there's one banning large size soft drinks. @.@
One should not throw stone when their in glass houses... The US governments throws too many.....
Reality check: U.S. is not perfect in human rights, but it is not even comparable to the situation in China. One cannot even post a negative tweet about a politician without the prospect of being beaten or going to jail. Can you honestly try to compare that to the U.S.?
Thank you Bill, well said!!
As a non-American, I'm fascinated by the fact that you all hate China; you criticize because they took advantage of your 1st Amendment but you grovel for their money – $3.4 Trillion and counting! Be careful of biting the hand that feeds you!
China have stepped up their criticism of the USofA because they do not respect your "Groveller-in-Chief" Period.
Really are you certain about that. I mean all we have to go on is a state report which is certain to always paint us bright and cheery and other countries as "less than america" Also, are you getting all your info from the our media like CNN and FOX? Have you ever been to China? I lived there for 2 months. Not just in the American ghetto in Beijing, but teaching English in a coastal town on the South China Sea. Are things perfect in China...no, I can tell you the beaches were FILTHY, but the people did not seem downtrodden, nor did I see soldiers or the SS checking in on people.
Honesty Counts- China is not even close to our largest creditor, the myth that we beg from China is childish and simplistic. We sell them Treasury Bonds, and they buy them because they know it is a good investment. We sell those same bonds to our own citizens and other nations. Americans own far more of our public debt than China or any other nation. We also own a large part of the debt of other nations. We are by far the largest economy on the Earth, we don't beg for loans from anyone.
Fareed, amid the negotiations to resume the transport supply to the NATO allies in Afghanistan, Pakistan is intensifying its relations with China and Russia. China's foreign minister was in Islamabad and a visit to Pakistan is already on Putin's agenda. Islamabad wants to stop the drone attacks and is pleased that Dennis Kucinich and 9 other Congressmen are strongly criticising these extrajudicial killings.
China must also have forbid those American kowk zucking kwok zuckers like you to zuck kwoks for a living.
Bill, just a reminder that two adult citizens in good standing do not have the basic civil right to marry in the USA if their beloved is the same gender. Human rights and civil rights are pretty much the same. I'm not gay but I certainly wouldn't restrict another person's basic civil right (which I enjoy) because their choice isn't the same as mine. Free speech and the right to marry are pretty similar. The kettle and pot are both shades of dark.
We will decide what is right for China and the rest of the world, with the exception of a few friendly European countries. We will not in any way listen or abide with any advice from countries who receive our instructions on the conducting of their internal affairs. When the USA speaks the world must listen and agree. Other countries must remain silent with regard to our internal affairs.
@jasonk the ss was in stealth mode you couldnt see them!
That's the whole point. America doesn't hide her problems and make believe everything is all sunshine and roses. Why did some of the Occupy protesters get "treated rudely", because they went from peaceful protest to let's fight the cops. Speaking of rich and poor, how do you get rich in China, being connected to the government. The poor have NO say in China. Guns, of course the Chinese Government is scared of peasants having guns. The peasants could turn those guns on the government. Can't have that now can we. America admits to having problems and trys to fix them. Does China do that?
No... the US DOES hide it's problems, remember wiki-leaks? The US government is trying to shut it down because it's revealing too much information....And there is little bases to say that the US is more open since do you know what the FBI or CIA is up to? Or your congress? Other than bickering? If there so much freedom then why's race still a problem in the US, along with woman's right, minority rights etc...
Mr. SoWhat? should shut his bloody mouth.
It's called free speach
Boo-hoo, princess.
Yeah, let's just shut up anyone who points out the problems in out country....while we brag about how free we are.
Shaddup’s speech is just as valid as SoWhats. Until he does something physical about it he is just as protected.
Why?
LOL, my guess your a blind sheep of the American media, have never been outside of your state or the US overall and is considered a patriotic American? Look up some facts, everything that I said could be looked up even here on CNN.
Race has nothing to do with freedom. The issue of race is purely psychological we as humans don't like anything that is different. Our minds are set up to discriminate it is a survival tactic that we have used to our favor since the dawn of man. Also the 1% as they are called have been playing poor white people and ethnic minorities against each other for decades. Just research what happened to those who have tried to bring people together like Dr. King Jr and President Kennedy. This way the 1% can divide and conquer and remain in power it is the oldest trick in the book.
Does anyone take the Human Right report by the US seriously? It has fallen into the gutter like the Nobel Peace Prize. US human right is appalling, as the US regime can jail and assasinate anyone they wished. Fly drone above developing country and dropping bombs killing whole families. US doesn't respect the human rights of developing country to develop without any gunboat diplomacy from the likes of OBama and KIllary.
John you are as stupid as SoWhat? take your stupid theories and lack of knowledge somewhere else.
And you can keep your head firmly shoved up your @ss where it rightfully belongs.
Well said John. You are an honest man.
Chris – you're seriously in need of a reality check – Denioalk or what?????
Nope. I'm pretty sure that you're the one in need of a reality check. Please, move along to a country with actual human rights problems and tell me what it looks like. My guess is that you've never seen a developing country, much less China. Idiot.
John is right. He forgot to mention the Bush/Cheney crime family that authorized the CIA to slowly murder of over 100 prisoners by torturing them to death.
Proof?
Proof? We don't need no stinkin' proof. If it fits our "narrative" it's true.
I think "John" is actually more like "Jun". "John's" English has Chinese character to it. However, as with everything, there is some truth to what John has written. We should all look at the reports, consider them carefully, and strive to improve where necessary.
Bush was worse, but I have to agree with John – Obama is far too eager using military solutions.
When you have the biggest stick on the block you can do whatever you want.
I consider owning a gun my 2nd Amendment right. So, the more the merrier. Just like we have freedom of Religion and of the Press and such and a church and newspaper in every town. The number of guns owned in the US is irrelevant. We have more deaths of those under 5 from DROWNING (not a protected right) and CAR ACCIDENTS (not a protected right), then gun-violence. So, can we all fill our pools with concrete and stop driving? People who are afraid of guns, and they can be scary, are letting that emotion get in the way of reason.
Legally owned guns sit inside houses and gather dust. Handguns that actually get used are universally used to commit crimes. When pharmaceuticals help many but also have some bad side effects for some, they are banned. Handguns outside of the police and military are only used to commit crimes and they're still legal. I can buy a gun so I can kill someone but I can't get Avastin to treat cancer. Our country is screwed up.
Simply put, it the United States I can criticize Obama all I want, and there will be no negative results unless I threaten him. In China, you can be beaten or sent to jail for such a thing. You can read negative stories about politicians in the paper and internet, were in China you cannot. The human rights conditions between the two countries are not even in the same ballpark, yet I see some people actually have the audacity to compare the two.
Your human rights are eroding daily, just look at the stupid soda thing in NY. Also the way your political system is funtioning I mean not, I might actually like the chinese system. America is probably one of the worst offenders of human rights in the world maybe just not on home soil.
O.K., go live in China, and we will see if you feel the same way. What a ridiculous thing to say. Chinese students are coming to the U.S. in droves to avoid their political system. Politics has always been politics, and the U.S. sure looks a lot better than Europe.
You can't compare torture to the right to have a Big Gulp. Anyone who complains about torture in China will disappear. People who complain about the ban on Big Gulps can elect someone who will lift the ban. Big Difference. In the US, you can still change things as a citizen. In China, you can't.
Tom the soda ban is a PREPOSAL and not a human rights issue, one being meet with fierce opposition mind you. The human rights are actually INCREASING in the U.S. Are you deliberately ignoring the new ruling on DOMA? How about the reversal of Don’t ask, don’t tell? There is a long way yet to go… but we are getting there.
Bill, Chinese students come to the USA in droves because U.S. schools of higher education are better and actually have openings. Additionally, there are jobs in the USA for highly educated people. Chinese and Indian people KNOW THIS. The USA is one of the few countries on Earth that approaches a functioning meritocracy. Nobody cares what color your skin is or your ethnic roots when you're highly educated in math, science or engineering. Born-in-the USA people are idiots because in the USA, people think uneducated is "cool" and then they complain because they can't get a job later.
NDAA says you're out of touch! As it kicks in you'll be the biggest open prison on the planet apart from China! And they'll bully YOU because they own you!
In America, YOU CAN BE MUGGED AND KILLED. Not So IN China.
In the USA all crimes are reported.
In China, they don't report crimes so that they can say they didn't happen.
In the USA you can get killed/ mugged by a thug. In China, you can get killed/ mugged by government officials. I'd rather face a thug than the government.
We are all human and thus imperfect, and while all countries can improve China's rebuttal does compare apples with oranges. Many Chinese people feel picked on by the U.S. and that makes their rebuttal all the more amusing because I suspect many of those same people would not readily recognize the difference. I should state that I really like China and the Chinese people, having lived there for years and my wife is Chinese.
I have travelled China a few times and I can attest to the fact that Chinese people do not hate Americans. As a matter of fact they want their government to have better relations with the USA. They think American culture and democracy should be emulated.
Wow! Please people, make your comments based on personal experiences and close observations.
As I experienced and closely observing, the Canadian Human Rights and Justice systems are the worst. It's so bad.
But, just because, those ethnically beneficiaries are making a front page news by Criticizing China, doesn't mean China Human Right is bad. Those front page news makers who keep violating their own Rules by denying work and education for my Christian-Ethiopian people in Canada, they want be treated by China as good people, which China ignored them.
These human right issue against China is biased and has no place in the modern Society, who do know evil and good.
Ironically, I know China got smarter over the Jews illegal trading and Money laundering. That's why the Jews accused everyone including China.
Listen but, China caught you! You tried to treat China the way you treated my Christian-Ethiopian people in Canada? You tried to murder them? You divided my Country and its people and caused war to sell weapons and Child trafficking. So, now the same system didn't work for you against China.
I am inviting the Chinese Officials to question christian-Ethiopians in Toronto, Canada how they are being secretly murdered and severely attacked by the Jews and their followers. They don't even have voices in the Government places.
Can the Jews not satisfied the murder they committed against my people? Although, denial is in their DNA?
The Jewish Religion, Talmud teaches to kill Christians.
anyone thinking schizophrenia?
Yes, my pleasure!! Under the freedom of thought, expression and 'BILL' [you] of Rights, I think you brought all diseases including the UNKNOWN yet KNOWN from somewhere to US.
Any question? ...is not acceptable. We are just in a blog site.
Bill, please look up "schizophrenia" so YOU have a clue. The former post was simply a rant by someone trying to lash out but who doesn't have the education or articulate speech to do so compellingly. Most people fall into this category.
You're doing to the Jews what you CLAIM they are doing to everyone else! If you don't like Canada – move to China. I'll have a bake sale to help pay for your ticket!
Canada is a wonderful country. I chose to move here and haven't regretted one single moment. So YOU have the problem – not Canada. As for Jews?????????/ Come on! If you want to lay blame, blame your own country for not educating you with a work ethic.
Hey dont forget your guns when you go to china!!
Whoa! Take a pill!
This is the funniest thing I've ever read.
"Overcritical"? – more like hypocritical.
The fact you can say that and not worry about retribution just shows how wrong you are.
Anyone who has traveled outside the US knows that we are the most hypocritical nation in the world. But we have our benefits too, free speech arguably being the most important.
Fareed, normally I agree with you on most of your arguments. And you do indeed point to some valid things that should be looked into. But:
"The report points out, for example, that with 5% of the world's population, we own between 35% and 50% of its civilian-owned guns.That's crazy and should make us all pause."
I'm a moderate. Registered Democrat, mostly socially liberal, fiscal a bit conservative (not even a member of the NRA cause those guys are Teabaggers in disguise). However, I served my country in the US Army. I own several firearms none of which are for hunting purposes. Its nobody's business to tell me or any other law abiding firearm owner that they have too many.
And do these sources go into countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, or any other 3rd world countries? Military grade weapons are available everywhere. We are just one of the few countries that can afford to buy them (and have the freedom to do so).
If any other over-the-counter product flat out killed as many innocent people as guns do you would be, pardon the pun, up in arms.
Guns are not “over the counter”.
Alcohol IS over the counter and kills more people per year than gun violence. Nice try though.
Dr. Fareed is a Great journalist. I do have Great respect for him. He can not be everywhere at once, to witnessed what is really happening around the World.
Close observations and personal experiences are a good EVIDENCE to proof.
The Great Britain sacrificed its almost entire power and lives to established North-America, for all of US to live peacefully and joyfully. But, some Jews who never contributed for the establishments of America and Canada, causes enormous truck load problems, for Christians who deserve respect. The Jews RUNAWAY from Hitler to come to Canada and U.S. to get a shelter. But now, hmm, let US feel the consequences.....
He needs his medicine
If he needs a prescription please let him know I am available.
I hate you.
Let the TRUE set them free.
What is TRUE, anyways?
Who decides whether the TRUE is really actual TRUE, according to.....book?
Wow you have the engrish language mastered!No one can understand a thing you said!!
Are you an Islamic Jew from China????
Well let's see, both countries have their own issues and flaws! But I believe the Chinese government is more united than our government and their parliament do go around saying that they want their president and country to fail! I believe our government is the most divided democracy in the world for a number of reasons and our people are a reflection of the government, ignorant, incompetent, complacent, bigoted, racist, selfish and just plain dumb!
The Chinese government is in no way united, and seen by recent events. Second, I would say having no freedom of speech at all would eclipse U.S. problems, do you not? China is also one of the world's most racist countries in the world. Take a look at their government. See any diversity there? I really cannot believe people are this ignorant, it is fasinating. I think a little time living in a country without rights would do people like you a lot of good (I have had the pleasure). Then you would appreciate what you have.
Kowk head, would you mind explaining how China is the most racist country in the world? Is it because you like to zuck big black kwoks while the Chinese don't?
I think the opion peice written is proof in its self that we are light years ahead of most countries on human rights and our abillity to exercise our freedoms. The idea of supporting anti-gun rights and releasing people from prison is as silly as China pretending to have good human rights. I constantly hear people say how they want their rights but wish to disolve other peoples rights at the same time.
It is really simple. If you dont want to go to jail dont commit a crime. The fact that our prisons are so full is actually a testement to our human rights practices. I know many people who are not afraid of prison in the U.S. In our prisons you are feed, clothed, get a matress, receive medical care and the like. Most countries people are afraid of the prisons because they are not so freindly.
As far as gun ownership, if you want to ban them then are you any better than someone who takes away any other right.
Define "crime." Many U.S. laws are illogical and immoral. Someone can get less time in prison for murder than for selling 2 grams of marijuana to another adult. Everyday the news media reports on police misconduct and corruption. It's difficult to tell the good guys from the bad. More of our rights are being taken away everyday. Ben Franklin said if you give up your freedom for security, then you'll never have security.
The report points out, for example, that with 5% of the world's population, we own between 35% and 50% of its civilian-owned guns.
That's crazy and should make us all pause.
No actually that means don't ever try to F-ing invade our country.
Treatment of Occupy protesters not a human rights violation? When NYC police brutalize and arrest journalists, and do all they can to prevent coverage of their crackdown on Occupy protesters, thus squelching and making a mockery of more than one 1st Amendment provision, that doesn't count as a human rights violation? When the NSA, wiping its butt with the Bill of Rights provision against unwarranted search, collects and data mines phone conversations and emails from all Americans, that's not a human rights violation? When police in Oakland, without due process or provocation, use unrestrained violence against protesters exercising their 1st Amendment rights, and are subsequently protected by a "justice" system that promises it for all, but grants it to some, that's not a human rights violation? When state Republican parties, as in Florida, engage in massive voter purges to try to ensure their party's victory in a thereby rigged election, thereby giving the lie to claims of democracy, that's not a human rights violation? What world are you living in, Mr. Zakaria?
And despite the human rights violations, we still cater to them and outsource all of our labor jobs there. The human cost is cheap compared to the end result.
Maybe you have zucked your uncle's kwok and swallowed his kum too much and that is exactly why you are full of it.
We have guns becuase we were given that right to defend ourselves against governments like China...Look who's censoring their internet. Our economy is bad because we have Obama. Remove him and watch it get better.
No if you want fix the problem, through them all out. A less than cooperative Republican party, Democarats who cannot agree amongst themselves, and the Tea Party who refuse to work with anyone. Then you may make some progress.
Our economy is bad because George W Bush created a huge deficit. Get your facts straight.
They should have mentioned how Americans have completely lost their right to privacy, (see Patriot act) free and fair elections, (see citizens united) affordable health care (we may have never had this one) and how wall street steals money from the many to reward the few. (see repeal of Glass-Steagall)
Captain, you are really correct. The U.S has taken on many of the aspects of the world described in "1984." Big brother is watching us, listening to our phone conversations, invading our homes, and even our bodies. We have no privacy. There is no aspect of our lives that the government doesn't try to control. Except, of course, we can still buy guns.
NEW YORK: Renowned Indian activist and novelist Arundhati Roy has decried the silence of the international community over the continued “brutal Indian occupation of Kashmir” and said Kashmiris should be given the right to self-determination.
“Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world — and one of the most ignored,” she told a large audience at the Asia Society during a discussion on “Kashmir — a case for freedom”.
Under the Indian military rule in Kashmir, Ms Roy said, freedom of speech was non-existent and human rights abuses were routine. Elections were rigged and the press controlled.
She said the lives of Kashmiris were made miserable by gun-totting security personnel who harassed and terrorised people with impunity, adding that disappearances were almost a daily occurrence as also kidnapping, arrests, fake encounters and torture. Mass graves have been discovered and the conscience of the world remains unstirred……
The apathy towards Kashmir, especially in the western world, Ms Roy said, was because of their pursuit of commercial interests in India where they were more eager to “sell their goods than human rights”……..
Shame on Indians for this horrible legacy. How can the Americans even think of associating themselves with such a country.
I am appalled at the American indifference to this ongoing genocide. WE NEED TO STOP INDIANS FROM THIS HORRIFIC ATROCITY .... NOW ...NOT LATER. Panetta should immediately take up this issue with Indians on his visit there.
No need to bring American troops and drones back home. Send the troops to Kashmir to liberate the Kashmiris from Indian sppression and kick the Indian troops. Despatch the drones to New Delhi to turn it into dust.
Instead of being able to have a civilized conversation about current events, we are being taken over by a few islamist who are paid by their imams/mullahs to post 24/7.
krm1007 IS aka Henry Dickinson, No Nonsense American, NO INDIANS IN MY BACKYARD PLEASE!, Larry Rubin, Dwayne Williamson, Betty S, John Henry, T-Bone Thakur, Sajjad Sialkoti, Jeremy, MJ, Beefsteak Balaji, Jim Black, James McDonald.
Do the TRUE story telling, can be a traditional Mind-Set? Or, is it just going to disappear, because the TRUE story let the Jews feel down and embraces?
...the traditional story, must be preserve, although it consists.......
It was just few Years ago, "No Jews and Dogs allowed in our (U.S and CANADA) beaches". Is it TRUE?
"Experimental Democracy" has failed in India. An experiment that was being shoved down India's throat by western countries too eager to propagate their own values on a country that was trying to decolonize itself while trying to shed the communist skin of being a Soviet ally. India was thus trapped. What has become evident now is that this "Experimental Democracy" has marginalized the country. The marginalized groups of the country – Dalits and ‘backward’ castes/classes, indigenous ‘tribal’ people and religious minorities have been disenfranchised. "The belief that corruption is the important issue in the country is shared only by the minority living in urban areas and towns who have been beneficiaries of economic liberalization policies mandated by western countries. The most important challenges of Indian society remain as follows: justice, social and economic equality and equal access to certain standards of life for all Indians. “While India seems too eager to please its western masters and put on a progressive and softer face for CNN for public consumption, people see through it. The consequences of this "Band – Aid" approach will be brutal for India geo-politically when it realizes that the GDP statistics that it has been relying to gage its progress has not amounted to much in the long run.
Genocide in Kashmir by Indian Army is very much a current issue and on UN Agenda. Where have you been?
As swipe arab jihadist posted the lengthy piece of sh iet writing but the people who matter know this.
Wanna wind up the muslims? Tell them the truth that mohammad was a pediphile marrying little girls!
Indian Occupied Kashmir and the genocide happening there is THE cause of all terrorism in that region. Indian Army needs to pull out and the Kashmiris should be given the right of self determination and democracy. UN please take note.
Panetta, please discuss with Indians and get back to US Congress on this issue.
As wipe jihadist piece of human excrement posted this piece of sh iet writing.
NEW YORK: Renowned Indian activist and novelist Arundhati Roy has decried the silence of the international community over the continued “brutal Indian occupation of Kashmir” and said Kashmiris should be given the right to self-determination……
She said so little was known about the atrocities being committed by more than half a million Indian troops, the continuing repression and indignities let loose on Kashmiri men, women and children.
More than 700,000 troops were concentrated in the tiny valley, with checkpoints at every nook and corner of Kashmiri towns and cities. The huge Indian presence, she added, was in sharp contrast with 160,000 US troops in Iraq.
Ms Roy alleged that Indian army or security personnel were killing young children, adding that Kashmiris were not radical Islamists or jihadists as India portrayed them. She deplored the Indian government’s attempts to demonise Kashmiris who were moderate Muslims.
Why is it taking over 64 years to resolve this issue? We know for a fact that part of the reason for the terrorism existent in the world today is due to Kashmir issue. So why the delay in solving this terrible injustice (rather genocide) happening in India?
Absoloutely unacceptable. Why is Hillary and Panetta not pursuing this with India? We need to look into political contributions made to Hillary"s coffers by Indian immigrants. Why is Obama quiet? American people will not tolerate such injustices. This is worse than what talibans have done.
Unbelievable and unconscionable. This story is about Indian Hindus and their ethnic cleansing in Kashmir. Also about the murders of muslim women and children. This is no different than Bosnia from the face of it.
Lol love how this author turned a report on civil rights violations by states into an anti-gun rant.
Credibility fail.
I agree, both reports are politically motivated crap! Do not care about neither!
america,the country that was CREATED and BUILT on human rights violations has no right to call out ANY other country on this planet for human rights violations. and for years america has turned a blind eye to the gross human rights violations that the Israeli's have been committing against the palestinians in their own homes since it was formed.
america! the country that paid its white settler kith and kin $1,000.00 per scalp for every red indian and southwest mexican that they killed to steal their land. america! the country that did the same thing to the inuit eskimo.
america! the country that KIDNAPPED and abducted black people from africa and forced them into a life of slavery and subterfuge to build a country for them for free.
show me a country on this PLANET that has committed more gross HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS THAN AMERICA AND ENGLAND!!?
nazi germany; soviet russia; Ancient rome; ancient egypt; present day china; present day north korea, Iraq under Saddam etc.etc.etc.
your an idiot
I am 100% sure that there is NOT a single BLACK AMERICAN,RED INDIAN,OR INUIT ESKIMO that would agree with your WHITE LIE!!
your just a habitual liar who refuses to admit what america is!
amen well spoken!!
I agree...you are an idiot. Hey! At least you are passionate about it!
shawn baggerly.....thats as white a name as you can get! the beneficiaries of slavery and racism defending the racist country that is america,and calling some one who tells the truth,a dummy? still blaming victims for the sins of your fathers?
we cant wait for the chinese to come and liborate us from the likes of you and your fathers!
and on another note. next month on JULY FOURTH, go to an INDIAN RESERVATION and ask them what they think of this great country of yours? I bet my last dollar it will not be the response that you want to hear!
Chris,
America's Indians had plenty of innocent blood on their hands. On other continents they would probably have been exterminated. If the Europeans never discovered America the Indians would still be robbing and killing each other to prove what great warriors they are.
As for the blacks – America did not take them into slavery – that was done by their fellow Africans or by Europeans, and it still goes on in Africa today. In any event the descendents of the slaves have been repaid abundantly by all the welfare benefits they've collected since 1965.
and what all of the white welfare queens and kings in states like Oregon,Montana,wyoming and so forth where there is no black population? better yet,that white welfare queen in michigan that won the LOTTERY and still collected her wefare check on the FIRST OF THE MONTH? LOL!
PullMyFinger you're an idiot. Chris is right all the way, he only forgot one little thing, and that little things is America was built on incests just because they wanted to keep those nice blue eyes blood line. There's more sociopaths with blue eyes in jails across the whole country than any other eye colors. You don't get or make anything good out of incest breading.
Pullmyfinger,
Your idiotic opinions identify you as either a troll or a plain old racist idiot. Same goes for your brother in idiocy, Juan who posted something else about us black folks previously in the thread. Really??? Black people have been repaid for past wrongs by all the welfare collected? Really? Please go back to school.
Sean,
Shouldn't you be out somewhere spray painting graffiti on the side of a bus?
12ax7a,
I'm looking forward to reading in the newspapers about your upcoming meltdown.
If you're trolling you could at least try to be funny...
Black people captured other blacks and sold them to the white men too.guess you forgot that professor!
America's version of democracy may be hollow and corrupt, but I don't remember the U.S. government driving tanks over its young people because they demanded a say in their own lives.
Nothing's going to stop the Chinese tsunami, but regimes are dispensable. Democratization anywhere is the world's business. Better to promote reform in the PRC now than once a brutally authoritarian state has established global dominance.
China never runs tanks over its own citizens
tianneman square much?! visit reality sometime bucko
Right ace,Just like they allow private ownership of firearms and the Gospel to be freely preached!
We don't drive tanks over young people, instead, we put them in prison. We imprison more of our non-violent youths than any country in the world.
Think Kent State...
America may not drive tanks on its civilians, but they sure do mass experimentations on it's civilians that you are not even aware of.
Nice system you've got. I was on another page and got posted here.
Now it's back. I surrender.
China should shut up and keep making that garbage they send over here.-–you know, the stuff they manufacture with slave labor.
And you should open your big kwok zucking mouth?
The Chinese don't know what they are talking about w/r/t the US. Neither the US knows what it is talking about w/r/t China. The human rights thing is totally out of proportion these days. It is a media-driven distraction to normal interaction between the countries.
The Chinese society would be a lot polite if people own guns. There would be no culture revolution. On the other hand, we could put the prison population in chain gangs and let them compete against illegal immgrants. But neither could be done in reality.
It is true. The US does – for the most part – treat its own better than most other regimes. However, the US is, I think, the only country to commit war crimes, genocide, and other crimes against other peoples – and gotten well away with it. It is interesting to see that China did not call the US out on things such as: The complete annihilation of the Native Americans, The bombings of Cambodia – against men, women, and children; use of defoliants and other poisons in Vietnam, and more recently – South America. It has used its own populations in various experiments – (Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment is just but one example)
New legislation, which paves the way to make it easier for the US to rendition its own people at home and abroad just might make it closer to China in some ways. So....we'll see.
Guess people living on Indian reservations here are not real Indians.You said we annilaited them???
The figure I read was about 250K Native Am. left out of an original population of 12 million. That isn't decimation, that's genocide.
OK, if we really want to know where people believe themselves better off then just look at immigration vs emigration rates for the USA.
In 2011 43,000 US born citizens left the USA– 30,000 of them to take temporary expatriate jobs with large corporations.
In 2011 1,042,625 people from other places imigrated to the USA (legally).
Since 30,000 of the emigrants will be coming back that means that 13,000 told the USA to "stuff it". That makes the emigration to imigration ratio 13,000 : 1,042,625 or 1:80.
Seems to me that a heck of a lot more people find HERE a much better place than THERE.
IChina failed to recognize all the jailed citizens for using cannabis. It also failed to recognize that Hemp is still illegal to grow, even though it has almost zero qualities of cannabis (AKA marijuana) with minuscule traces of THC, can be grown in all 50 states, and renews the soil it was grown in! That's because China is the #1 EXPORTER OF HEMP, while the United States is the #1 IMPORTER of hemp!
A lot of talk about banning guns on here.Great ban them .Drugs are illegal pot Lsd cocaine meth give me 4 hours in any city or small town i can get whatever you want.OH but banning guns you truely beleive they would be any harder to obtain.the gun has no brain nor the bullet only those that use it as a weapon do.Shame we cant ban stupid in order to make the world a safer place.
A ban on idiocy would be great, but politicians would never ban themselves.
Good Job China. Keep exposing America for the hypocritical, racist, oppressive, failure that it is! I repeat, good job!! The devil doesn't like to hear the truth about himself..
The Kashmir region must not have any natural resources we need. The U.S. only intervenes/interferes when there is something like oil, gas or some other mineral that we need. Human rights is a convienient excuse. Think about it. The US became what it is by trampling on human rights. How can you expect us to stand up for anything?
Americans are born in denial.
GG you hit the head of the nail, that is so true.
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It's really an excellent report. It seems impossible that they could be so lucid regarding America's problems, and also be so blind to their much bigger and more important problems.
Lets begins by listing state-sponsored killings, political arrests, known cases of torture, and disappearances, this sounds like Israel, doesn't? did the report mention Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Did the report mention those countries?
The complete report usually does name those things.
Oh, we're very good to our criminals and the up-and-coming ones as well. We support those who live on the fray of cheating the government welfare system (moms and kids) and then support their deadbeat boyfriends (one of multiple fathers, perhaps?) in the prison system. Everybody enjoys my tax dollars for laying around and lying – and, making more children that they could never afford in the first place. China has a stern but realistic population solution which the U.S. could never stomach. I'm all for some of their policies. If you want something better, pay for it yourselves.
What are your thoughts on contraception? serious inquiry..
Contraception? It would be nice if it didn't have to be an issue, but it is. My tax dollars currently encourage minorities and illegals to have children they cannot afford – my money keeps them sheltered, fed, enjoying cable television, cell phones, free daycare, transportation vouchers and anything else they cry for. I'd like to see welfare recipients limit their reproduction to one child – unless they want to leave the program permanently, so that the generational abuse of the system ends. It solves multiple problems – but again, the U.S. can't bring themselves to have this realistic discussion.
China's biggest criticism and concern is that the US population has guns. I can see how it's a concern for them that if one day they dare to invade the united states they will no only face the military, national guards, militias, police but up to 150 million (assuming 50% of population is armed) civilians who will play target practice with them. Why do you think the founding fathers thought about the right to bear arms? Countries have a better chance nuking the country than to invade it. lol. too bad for you.
if anyone seriously thinks 100 million American civilians armed with house guns can stop a Chinese invasion needs to get his head checked. Chinese military would use planes to bomb rather than land troops. house guns can't shoot down planes. the only thing house guns to is shoot and hurt other civilians
Guess you forgot the USA has the better airforce between US and China.We can shoot down planes with our household guns.You have no navy to speak of so an invasion is outa the ? keep eating the rat poison in you food!
WastedFacts, you must be day dreaming my friend. Let me give light up you dark corners. USA are claiming to having won wars, now name me a single one that you really won, and then USA is claiming about all the goods their brought to other countries, now tell me which good you're talking about, all we saw was stupid soldiers killing innocent civilians a shooting spree innocent children and babies just for fun and then cover it with more lies. Then you went in Afghanistan to get OBL without even giving one single warning to their authorities. You are getting in any country you feel like to just because you thing you are the Gods of the whole planet. The day it will slap you back in the face it won't be by warnings, you won't be warned. You will treated the same way you treated others, as much as i hate to say this it will happen. I makes me sad to know it, i know some very nice American people and knowing this hurts, but unfortunately there are also a bunch of stupid Americans who by their stupid act will bring this terror upon their fellow Americans. I hope the good one will fly to other country for the sake of their lives. Just remember history has shown us many times that nothing last, not even an empire does, they all fell at one time or another.
At least we all own guns, to blow u to bits. haha
Great article. I wish we could run you for President of the U.S.
Ok, let me show you what the reality is:
1. US and China share a lot of similarities. One of which being both of their citizens actually feel pretty comfortable living in their respective countries. The regular Chinese don't worry about being arrested out of the blue, just like average Americans don't really care what's inside the PATRIOT act.
2. The governments of US and China are constantly in battle. And they play their citizens against one other. They accuse each other of being the dirtier, more evil one through various channels. That's why you see a lot of negative comments of the US on Chinese discussion boards and equally the same here.
3. In the end, we are all human beings who share the same world. The trend is a closer and more co-operative global system, and the relationship between China and the US will inadvertently become more and more intertwined.
How could they criticize us for income inequality when they have the same problem at a worse scale
China is getting better. the US is getting worse
Well said, Yang Xi Ga. How true that is.
I did not make that comment.
The mo ron with the IQ of a gnat keeps harassing me. This I D I O T gets beat up everytime he does it but he/she/it keeps doing it.
This excuse for a human being islamist is AKA George Patton, J. Foster Dulles, Joseph McCarthy, Travis, Marine5484, Yacobi, Warren, Quigley, Vin, Willie12345 and Patrick-2.
Just where do we Americans come off criticizing others for the human rights record? As I well remember, back on Feb.13,1991 two American pilots bombed the Amriya air raid shelter in Baghdad, killing more than 414 civilians mostly women, children and elderly people who only wanted to survive the firsr Gulf War. Yet to this day, no one has ever been held accountable for that atrocity!
You are not an American.
You are an ISLAMIST who is also known as George Patton, J. Foster Dulles, Joseph McCarthy, Travis, Marine5484, Yacobi, Warren, Quigley, Vin, Willie12345 and Patrick-2.
How dare you denegrate the name of Gen. George Patton here! He commanded the 3rd Army during WW2. Have you no shame at all?
You are an I D I O T.
Your IQ is 25.
maybe lower.
Okay, much lower.
How do you remember to breathe?
Check your bbs, iphones, androids, lte and you will find the same thread for George Patton, J. Foster Dulles, Joseph McCarthy, Travis, Marine5484, Yacobi, Warren, Quigley, Vin, Willie12345 and Patrick-2.
You will also find that same threat using my name.
I too remember that atrocity back 1991 Travis, and the reaction of the general public to it was truly repulsive as if nobody did anything wrong!!!
if anyone seriously thinks 100 million American civilians armed with house guns can stop a Chinese invasion needs to get his head checked. Chinese military would use planes to bomb rather than land troops. when civilians are need to defend a country, the war would already be lost. house guns can't shoot down planes. the only thing house guns to is shoot and hurt other civilians
What is a "house gun" Who makes it? Is is a hand gun, rifle or shotgun? What caliber is it? Sounds cool! where can I get one?
"House guns" can only shoot civilians? Chinese soldiers must have anti-"house-gun" force fields.
If 100 million Chinese "military" would invade the USA, 95 million would instantly defect the moment they set foot here, then they would kill the other 5 million for not defecting.
mot jailing people for consumption of Marijuana would cut the jail population by half. But in the USA Republicans are too stupid to understand that. If any human right violation is largely typical of the USA is that Republicans beaten to the pulp often enough.
and what about the facebook shares scam? Mark raked in billions at the expense of civilians who bought the shares. I consider it a human rights violation when the US government turns a blind eye rather than regulating the stock market
"The report points out, for example, that with 5% of the world's population, we own between 35% and 50% of its civilian-owned guns."
Not really a problem. We, as Americans, are guaranteed a right to own a weapon. That right has been repeatedly affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States. I wonder how many Chinese citizens, Tibetan Citizens, Taiwan citizens, and Mongolian citizens would have a gun if they were allowed? The Chinese government of course would never allow this to happen as they know they would be the first targets.
While the U.S. has the most gun violence, we also have the third largest population behind China and India. Statistically we would have more gun violence than any other country that allows citizens to own guns. There is a problem of gun violence but it is not near the level of the state-sponsored gun violence of China against its own citizens and the citizens of the countries that China has illegally invaded.
a kitchen knife is just a good weapon as a gun. and why would citizens want guns other than to shoot at fellow citizens?
You are a clocksucking,fargin icehole!
pardon me? countries that China has legally invaded?
If I were China, I would keep your planes at home...may need them out of the way of the mushroom cloud.
Is Chavez dead yet?
Just wondering...
Why don't we do business with Cuba? They may not be the best country in the world for human rights but China crushes their protestors with tanks and we're shoveling boatloads of money to them.
The US never commits atrocities,do they?shall we start from the beginning with the indians,or go to the black slaves?Or should we go further and show what they did to the demonstrators at the recent Wall Street protests?If the country united against the US gov't and started to heavily protest them,as syria has done would our gov't do much different?OK,maybe they wouldn't go around killing kids,but they would crack down hard.And if some of the people rose up and began to fight,they would crack down even harder.Sorry-we aren't m uch different-we are hypocrites.
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Fareed wy yu delete my coment about yu not good jurinalst? Are yu pregjadist to Chinase?
Are you really Chinese?
No do I look Chinase?
Time for HUGE TARIFFS on Chinese goods.
You can't have tariffs or Fair Trade. The CEO of Walmart will not make a billion a day. International Corporate Lawyers, Lobbists and the Bush-Obama Administration have destoyed the world economy.
It's a white man's world
That is why I bleach.
You're Not Alive Anymore! Thank You Very Much! I Am Now Leaving The Building!
Yup true, only that his world is confined to poverty and unemployement these days.Times change, cvilisations rise, they fall – FACT.
People are starving to death in the U.S. 100,000's have no job. I think the U.S. should outsource every U.S. citizens job to Asia! I think the U.S. has no internal revenue and has destroyed its own defence system. I think the U.S. is Destroyed. Austerity is not the issue the U.S. currency is worthless and all the Banks of the world know this!
Soon North America Banking BA will fail hard with England HSBC. Germany UBS will not bail out the world. Fair Trade does not exist. Without symmetry CHAOS Revolations Hell exists.
Wow, that is a lot of poison you are spewing Clarence.
Would you be capable of explaining all your accusations?
Then, we could have a conversation.
Pat,
What accusations genius?
Sounds romantic! Meet me at the Golden Gate southern sidewalk entrance tonight at 8:22 pm PSt.
Okay Clarence, I will let the police know you will be there.
Don't just invite the cop. Invite the Indian chief, the sailor, and the guy that wears leather.
It's fun to stay at the S...P...C...A...!
So Clarence, Village Person, Lost Puppy, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Gni Gnop, YingYong, IIlogical Communist Thinking, Huh?, Awkward Phrase, D. Darko is the same fool.
This propped up ecomomy will collapse as it must, for something honest and fully backed by precious metals to rise up, instead of all this play money they print. Corporate Health care does not work, and it must collapse too, it only cares about profit of it shareholders not the basic health of all of Humanity.
China does state-sponsored killings?How many people has our "state" caused to be killed.I see pics all the time of devastation we have done to civilians,their families and their homes.What hypocrites the USA gov't is.t's 'collateral damage' I suppose they'd say-the price of war.Easy to say when it's not your home or children or families that have been bombed.Would it be 'collateral damage' then?
Follow the money. Internation Corporate Lawyers, Lobbyists should be burned alive. We all are victims concerning the billionaires killing and stealing. Gas is $4.53 putting every small business out of business. Bush-Obama Administration, sold out liars, lawyers from hell, are the real Terrorists.
............love of money,the root of all evil........and we,the USA have the most.And I totally agree-it's not just one party.Both parties have become warmongers.The one good thing I will say about Russia and China is atleast they keep world power balanced.If we were to do as we please,(the USA/NATO),then we would not have stopped at Syria and gone on all the way through Asia til we had every foreign policy completed,all the oil under our dollar and all the world answering to us.We have become what we once hated.No-we aren't taking over the world like Hitler tried.We are going about it a whole different way.
Or better yet,let's send the politicians children to warzones and let them fight-if one of them get's shot,let's hear them say,"Well,it's the price of war! It's collateral damage!"But,will that happen?Ofc ourse not! Because they know their words are empty and void.Their apologies mean nothing when you have lost everything.SORRY! Your child is dead.SORRY! Your home is bombed.SORRY! Yes,you are sorry.
They do make great points. Now if only they could DEMONSTRATE that this rebuttal is in no way justifying their actions.
.....and we should do the same
I like this report the Tyranny of Absolute Communism vs. Absolute Monopolistic Capitalism (OPEC) which evil is the greater evil.
The Government should work for the people not the few Communist Government Officials or Capitalist monopolistic billionaires. History repeats itself this time with a – Global Depression – without end.
Why do we bother publishing all of this data? It costs money, and it is being used to create a negative impression of the US.
Think is sucks here? Try living in China...
Please post sober.
give it a few years after they declare martial law-we'll catch up
new Orleans was just a test-repeat-this is only a test
Only hindu's ignorant rulers of America can point finger at others while their own pants are down. typical way of hindu Jew's, criminal secular s to hide their own hinduism terrorism against humanity.
You people are missing the point. The whole purpose of this report is not to indicte or point out all of the US's problems but moreso to say before u judge us with ur overcritical views u need to also look at ur own imperfect society. China as an emerging nation is still a work in progress to say the least. Only a few decades ago, it was considered third world. Sure they have their problems, human rights being one of them. But u can't tell me this great nation of ours wasn't built on the backs of slaves and oppressed immigrants. What gives us the right to judge anyone else. China is still evolving as a society from a communist mindset but I believe they understand they are now a World power and will be judged accordingly on all aspects. But overall I believe they are headed in the right direction. We just have to give them some time to sort it out.
RE: Jason says .... " Clearly you are a Democrat and you opinion is based on emotion, not facts..." i love this line.
That's funny, because I think both parties do and a lot of people that support those parties base their vote on just that, if it's not race or religion.
Now that cracks me up.nb go China!
I do not see why someone cannot point out a failing about others until they are perfect. China with its issues see someone suffering in US – surly they can say so. The suffering person should be grateful.
"Amnesty International is calling for an impartial investigation into mass graves found in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Sunday, India's Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission released a report saying a three-year investigation had uncovered 2,156 unidentified bodies in 38 sites in the region. In a statement released Monday, Amnesty International asked Indian officials to allow impartial forensic experts to carry out a thorough investigation of the skeletal remains. The rights group also urged Indian authorities to ensure the safety of the witnesses who gave statements to police during the investigation. Indian authorities conducted the inquiry in response to allegations that Indian security forces have committed rights abuses in fighting a more than two-decade-long Muslim separatist insurgency. Rights activists say at least 8,000 people have gone missing in Indian Kashmir since the separatists began fighting in 1989 for independence from Hindu-majority India or a merger with Muslim-majority Pakistan. Rebel attacks and Indian government crackdowns have killed at least 50,000 people.
This is absolutely unacceptable. Drone Indians for their brutality in Kashmir
I am quite aggravated with these arrogant and self-righteous people in our government criticizing the Chinese with their human rights record. After all, it's we Americans who are using those ungodly drones, dropping 500lb. bombs on people in both Afghanistan and Pakistan with complete impunity! I smell a double standard here!
That smell is the BS you are spewing.
BS is the way of hindu's, deniers of truth absolute in their hindu Judaism, filthy secularism, nothing but hindu's criminals source of hinduism,, disunity among humanity. Nmes does not matter, your post is nothing but hinduism, stink of a hindu, skunk from hindered ,terrorist and artificial called india.
One person deciding on who to kill, when to kill and how to kill. Even if it's outside a war zone in another country. That's President Obamas plan of action. Sounds like Hitlers policy. I don't agree with China on everything, but they do make a point that we basically have no right to criticize their country when we have probably the most back-assward policies on a lot of things.
Bravo ! thank you for speaking out. Meera, BTW this guy Patrick seems like like he is schizophrenic. He is going bonkers.
Esposito is an islamist piece of pig excrement who has consistently spewed poison against America.
It is AKA John Henry, Jai Smondi, T-Bone Thakur Sajjad Sialkoti, Jeremy, Jim Black, MJ, KRM1007, Beefsteak Balaji, Jim Black Peter Haas, James McDonald, UberNewsNetwork (UNN) Copyrighted, Henry Dickinson, No Nonsense American, NO INDIANS IN MY BACKYARD PLEASE, Larry Rubin.
This is not a case of multiple personality disorder but a venom spewing anti anything that is American.
Sorry Esposito, I never posted the above. Some half-witted Tea Partier here is trying to make me look stupid. I never post any right-wing mumbo-jumbo on this or any other web page.
The previous message was not posted by me.
Please check with your lte, bb,android to see the difference between my posts and the moron islamist.
It is AKA:
jr,
Chen
Ming Wien,
John Henry,
Jai Smondi,
T-Bone Thakur
Sajjad Sialkoti,
Jeremy,
Jim Black,
MJ,
KRM1007,
Beefsteak Balaji,
Jim Black
Peter Haas,
James McDonald,
UberNewsNetwork (UNN) Copyrighted,
Henry Dickinson,
No Nonsense American,
NO INDIANS IN MY BACKYARD PLEASE,
Larry Rubin,
Esposito
Patrick
Quigley is a muslim extremist who is on 24/7 spewing poison about the USA.
It is AKA:
George Patton,
J. Foster Dulles,
Joseph McCarthy,
Travis,
Marine5484,
Yacobi,
Warren,
Quigley,
Vin,
Willie12345
Patrick-2
Help...I am on hallucinatories and am going through withdrawal symtoms. I need detox.
Patrick
So Clarence, Village Person, Lost Puppy, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Gni Gnop, YingYong, IIlogical Communist Thinking, Huh?, Awkward Phrase, D. Darko is the same fool.
I like hearing the balanced reporting and opinions of Fareed Zakaria. As Fareed says, USA has many problems to solve, as does China. Rather than finger-pointing at China, we should be working to resolve our own abuses of authority. Using pepper spray not once, not twice, but three times on peaceful assemblages of college students is a human rights abuse, as Americans are supposed to have the right to peacefully demonstrate, which they were doing when they were attacked by school authorities with the knowledge and approval of the school's dean. American media turned a blind eye to the Occupy Wall Street movement early on until other countries like China held up a mirror. USA renewed its so-called Patriot Act for another 4 years in 2012 which allows government to eavesdrop on private citizens with little oversight or accountability. More than 10 years after 9/11, Gitmo detainees are still languishing without a trial. While I do not have much sympathy for real terrorist, I do think that everybody should receive a fair trial in a court of law – another human right, Fareed – not military tribunals by American soldiers with poor foreign language skills pre-convinced of guilt, and not left to rot without due process. http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/2/16/13114/2619
hmmmmm
china posted least than i thought they would....
they didnt talk about how obama signing the NDAA along with the the president candidates.
plus, it is a report on China talking about US on how US is doing...
I didnt come to read some facts and some opinion that Fareed Zakaria has posted!!!
Idiot Zakaria . What do you gain by leaving your religion ? You have been slave of the USA delivering speech from government order but not from your brain . Is it not violation of human rights ? The USA humiliated China in last century because China was week . Where was your Human rights ? Now China is developing its economy , so the USA is insulting China . Repressing poor wall street protesters are not violation of Human rights ? Nope done by the USA , so not
What a stupid article Fareed! As usual. You know the US is the #1 perpetrator of crimes against humanity on the planet, yet you turn a blind eye, just because you want to be seen as an "American" and not someone who is critical of a broken and dysfunctional system. As we point the finger, three are pointing bad at us, I still can't believe CNN gave you a column/article, I couldn't stand you or your writings in college and I still can't today. Namaste.
The Chinese Communist Party has no credibility. They even print the image of a mass murderer on their currency.
Actually Americans do discuss all this. Professors discuss this in the classrom. Even comedy news anchor Jon says in his show that we decided to destroy our middle while others are building middle class. In last 14 years, repeal of glass stegall act, unpaid war, tax cut and financial collapsed happenned as a result of repeal of glass stegall act. Neither democratic or a republican president would be able to do anything without reforming capitalist system. Reforms could be on taxes or bringing private equity to bring under same rule as other businesses. I could go on an on about reforms that's necessary for capitalist system.. Anyway thanks chinese for nothing. Many americans are well aware but they know their poliical system is unable to fix this problem now.
DO NOT TRUST THE CHINESE PEOPLE or CHINA COUNTRY at all.....War already started between USA and CHINA.. CHINA ALREADY WON so far.. Look at the economy, look at the military of CHINA.. they have a lot of money to build up their military.. CHINA already copy cat our technology/ our secret military weapons.. china ALREADY HACKED into our pentagon database and stolen a lot of SECRET stuffs....CHINA killing us slowly by poisoning our foods, toys,seafoods, paints, clothes......etc.. they sold us cheap stuff and earned a lot of money so that they can build their MILITARY.. when they r strong enough, they will declare war WITH U.S.A. to prove that they r not AFRAID OF THE WESTERN....CHINA ALREADY bully SOUTH EAST ASIA COUNTRY and they planning to steal all of the island and sea to themself... DO NOT BUY "MADE IN CHINA" OR DO NOT BUY China brand name at alll.. DO NOT SUPPORT CHINA..Ultimately, china will FALL DOWN hard.CHINA ALREADY STOLEN Tibetan LAND...
iF U R SMALL and a big person come and bully you.. Don't u want another BIG PERSON come and protecting you.. SAME THING IN THE SOUTH EAST ASIA.. CHINA IS BIG and it's bully the small country such as Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Philippine......etc
Quangxi and Quangdong, province of CHINA used to BELONG to VIETNAM until the CHINESE TOOK OVER more than 2000 YEARS AGO..
Thumb up, if you would like to see CHINA FALLS.... CHINA IS EVIL. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
DO NOT TRUST THE CHINESE PEOPLE or CHINA COUNTRY at all.....War already started between USA and CHINA.. CHINA ALREADY WON so far.. Look at the economy, look at the military of CHINA.. they have a lot of money to build up their military.. CHINA already copy cat our technology/ our secret military weapons.. china ALREADY HACKED into our pentagon database and stolen a lot of SECRET stuffs....CHINA killing us slowly by poisoning our foods, toys,seafoods, paints, clothes......etc.. they sold us cheap stuff and earned a lot of money so that they can build their MILITARY.. when they r strong enough, they will declare war WITH U.S.A. to prove that they r not AFRAID OF THE WESTERN....CHINA ALREADY bully SOUTH EAST ASIA COUNTRY and they planning to steal all of the island and sea to themself... DO NOT BUY "MADE IN CHINA" OR DO NOT BUY China brand name at alll.. DO NOT SUPPORT CHINA..Ultimately, china will FALL DOWN hard.CHINA ALREADY STOLEN Tibetan LAND...
iF U R SMALL and a big person come and bully you.. Don't u want another BIG PERSON come and protecting you.. SAME THING IN THE SOUTH EAST ASIA.. CHINA IS BIG and it's bully the small country such as Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Philippine......etc
Quangxi and Quangdong, province of CHINA used to BELONG to VIETNAM until the CHINESE TOOK OVER more than 2000 YEARS AGO..
Thumb up, if you would like to see CHINA FALLS.... CHINA IS EVIL. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
The US is the desperate one, sir, not China. China is a rising superpower; the US has gargantuan problems and is in desperate straits financially both now and in the future (extremely desperate regarding unfunded liabilities). I remind you how Germany was desperate financially during Weimar. Desperate countries do very desperate things.
Thanks, Farhud. Almost missed the daily report on what some police state thinks.
Owned.
I dont think anyone gives a rats a.. about what the US thinks
A significant part of America's unemployment problems can be directly or indirectly attributed to trade with China. China's predatory trade practices and America's inability to respond have wipped out millions of direct manufacturing jobs and perhaps tens of millions of secondary support jobs. Individuals should have the right to run a business in a free and fair market, unfortunately that's not possible when small time American manufacturers are pitted against a massive state-run machine that puts furthering national interests over profit. America's inability to identify and effectively react to China's trade practices have empowered and emboldened the authoritarian regime.
It's time Americans stop feeding this insanity, avoid Chinese imports, and buy more American products.
You know china you like displaying your "military" every time I see a picture of them they look so prissy, less manly than I expected in other words they are soft.
MWAhh ha ha Ha . What about 1.2 million indian soldiers hiding in trenches/bunkers scared of talibans?
America is a GREAT Country. It allowed Chinese descendants and immigrants to be educated and becomes wealthy, Doctors, Scientists,.....and also, America assisting China to prosper economically and Militarily. Which means, China owed America.
i believe the term is..oxymoron.
I think we are all missing the point. If this was your neighbour saying what is wrong in your house, you would ignore him or tell him to mind his own business. Yeah....China isn't our neighbour, but i am only trying to make a point.
I figure our gov't should try and emulate the things that are going right in other countries, not point out what isn't working. Imagine that for a minute. The USA suddenly changes our policies and instead of saying how great we are, begins to get over itself and sees that on certain places, problems we have here are dealt with in a different and more productive manner. Health care for all Americans. Reasonably priced education ......everyone gets along, minorities are appreciated for their differences.....less violence....
Point is China is doing something right. Their financial power is growing...as is their scope of power on the world stage. And while we are not perfect, the Chinese can learn more than a few things from us.
THANK you sir. Finally.....somebody knows fixing the problems is the most important thing, not the blame.
good for China...
Is it a case of pot calling the kettle black? U.S. is so free, crimes are rampant. China is suffocating from lack of freedom. If people were the ones decided what path China is to take, we would have nothing to say; but people in China don't get to say anything. They can't even elect their governors.
In India, millions of girls are strangled, slowly starved or simply tossed in the trash. Moreover, in India, at least 1,370 girls are aborted every day. As a comparison, some 250 Indians die every day in road accidents. Terrorists killed about six people, on an average, every day in 2009. In the last two decades of economic progress, 10 million girls have died as such in India.
SHAME ON INDIA AND ITS BARBARIC AND MEDIEVAL CULTURE !!!
Indians have killed more human beings (girls particularly) than Al Qaeda and Talibans put together.
I did not make that statement.
The thing that keeps stealing my moniker is known as jr, Chen Ming Wien, John Henry, Jai Smondi, T-Bone Thakur Sajjad Sialkoti, Jeremy, Jim Black, MJ, KRM1007, Beefsteak Balaji, Jim Black Peter Haas, James McDonald, UberNewsNetwork (UNN) Copyrighted, Henry Dickinson, No Nonsense American, NO INDIANS IN MY BACKYARD PLEASE, Larry Rubin, Esposito.
"Quigley is a muslim extremist who is on 24/7 spewing poison about the USA.
It is AKA:
George Patton,
J. Foster Dulles,
Joseph McCarthy,
Travis,
Marine5484,
Yacobi,
Warren,
Quigley,
Vin,
Willie12345
Patrick-2"
Pardon me, I am on Anxiolytics and thus hallucinating.b i don't even know who I am. i could be one of the dudeson the list.
Patrick
Clarence, Village Person, Lost Puppy, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Gni Gnop, YingYong, IIlogical Communist Thinking, Huh?, Awkward Phrase, D. Darko is the same fool.
New, More Dangerous Hindu Extremist Groups Emerge in India
Christians concerned as rightwing factions splinter to form militant outfits.
PUNE, India, October 29 (CDN) — After more than a decade of severe persecution, India’s Christian minority is growing increasingly concerned over the mushrooming of newer and deadlier Hindu extremist groups.
Gone are the days when Christians had to watch out only for the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) and its youth wing, Bajrang Dal, which are closely linked with the most influential Hindu extremist umbrella organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). With voter support faltering for the RSS’s political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), moderate and extremist sections within the Hindu nationalist movement are blaming each other, and militant splinter groups have emerged.
Claiming to be breakaway factions of the RSS, new groups with even more extreme ideology are surfacing. The Abhinav Bharat (Pride of India), the Rashtriya Jagran Manch (National Revival Forum), the Sri Ram Sene (Army of god Rama), the Hindu Dharam Sena (Army for Hindu Religion) and the Sanatan Sanstha (Eternal Organization) have launched numerous violent attacks on Christian and Muslim minorities.
Based out of Goa, a western state with a substantial number of Christians, the Sanatan Sanstha provides the ideological base for Hindu militant groups. It has close links with the Sri Ram Sene and publishes a periodical, Sanatan Prabhat, which occasionally spews hate against Christians.
HONOR KILLINGS IN INDIA
To be young and in love has proved fatal for many young girls and boys in parts of north India as an intolerant and bigoted society refuses to accept any violation of its rigid code of decorum, especially when it comes to women. The two teenage girls who were shot dead last week by a cousin in Noida for daring to run away to meet their boyfriends are the latest victims of honour killings, a euphemism for doing away with anyone seen as spoiling the family's reputation. Many such killings are happening with regularity in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh. These are socially sanctioned by caste panchayats and carried out by mobs with the connivance of family members.
Needless to say India has always been and will remain a medieval society. Sends a chill down your spine...india.
If you want to buy a chicken knief in BeiJing, You need to be register as a gun buyer in states.
How Evil CCP is...
I am happy that CHINA realisesand points the weaknesses of AMERICA but howcome they are soo ignorent about those problems when it come to thwmselves. AMERICA is confident to arm its population with weapons.I bet CHINA dare to arm its FARMERS or commoners !!!! Their INTERNAL SECURITY budget is way bigger than their DEFENCE budget ??? means they did something serious wrong to their CITIZENS and fears more from them then outside world.
DON'T FORGET. WHEN YOU POINT YOUR INDEX FINGER TO OTHERS YOUR OTHER THREE FINGERS ARE POINTING TOWARDS YOU. I WONDER IF THOSE CHINESE REPORTS ABOUT AMERICA ARE AVAILABLE TO READ BY CHINESE CITIZENS. IT IS FUNNY THAT HU'S PRESS MEDIAS IN U.S. ARE CONSORED IN CHINA ???
CCP is an illegal power in China, the cheapest, the lowerest class of China society.
The EVIL sprirt has last 2 generations in China, Most Chinese are in fear and keep silence
The Chinese citizen are acted as abused animals. The education system in China produces the rudest human being as I can tell.
China is such a joke. They copy, they do not innovate. And I mean down to the very aspect of their culture in the modern day. And so, we put out a report that is mostly factual, and they ignore the fact that a similar report from them would be utterly ridiculous and skip right to copying and then using the copy to their own words. The sad fact is that we have to pay attention to China due to sheer scale, however, I am not as worried about the US losing its preeminence at least not to a nation of copiers and followers, That land is bereft of innovators and social revolutionaries.
CCP has killed mostl educated citizens, so call right wings, during 1948-1976. The genes left in China are very poor now. The worst case is that t CCP tries to brain waching or unify its citizen's every view since they are kids. A part of brain of Chinese is never developed during the education system. It will take a long time for CCP to realize their mistakes that they had made for the whole race.
It's easy to critizise American human right records, but it's hard for CCP to change their Evil system. It will collapse soon.
whoever takes over CCP should reform the education system all over again as time goes back to 1949.
Yes the Chinese genes must be very poor... what hogwash ! Look at the number of gold medal winners from China at the International Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Informatics Olympiad every year. What is also interesting are the names of the US representation at these events. Dr Michio Kaku is right – America has a secret weapon and that secret weapon is the H1B.
Gun ownership ownership should be more regulated. The US has nearly 4 times the amount of homicides as a country like Spain, which has very strict gun policies. Everyone claims that it is a right, which it is, but many people blindly claim that it is necessary to have guns in order to defend ourselves, where in reality in nearly 98% of cases, a gun is unable to be utilized for defense against an attacker. Yes, people will attack others with other weapons, but at least there would be a chance to escape or defend themselves. I'm not asking you to rid of gun rights, I'm just asking you to make rational considerations before you take a stance on a subject.
You got that 98% nailed down, huh? Or did you just pull it out of your @$$?"
This story disproves China's argument.
American need to understand China's history in order to understand CCP's evil thought. There were wars in China history. The most important war, from my view, is the decision of the king of Chin, who unify the whole country and unify the character of Chinese, unify the finacial system and the transportation system.
Compared with Europe, instead of deviding into different language, China combined to be a big one. After Chin, the wars keep on going in China for thousand of years but the political thinking is that one dominate party unify the rest. Somehow the big country boots Chinese's ego..
That's why CCP hasl lost in its history, CCP still insists single party rule. Only time can tell, if works in 21 century..
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It's funny to me how the leaders of a 5,000 year-old civlization like China can be so blind – not to say ruthless – and adolescent when it comes to criticizing other countries while ignoring their own woes. At least in America we can criticize the government openly. Try that in China.
Nice try TDJ, in USA cops can kill you on the spot for showing too much of you being against the government.
Who cares whether the gap between rich or poor is widening? If “poor” people made 30,000 and “rich” people made 1,000,000 last year the gap is 970,000. Then if this year poor people make 33,000 and rich people made 1,100,000 the gap increase to 1,067,000 but everybody is making more money (by 10% in this example) so everybody should be happy. If I’m the poor guy I got a 3,000 bump –PARTAY! It is so obvious that this is a ploy to divide us all so some politician can say “You poor people – I will help your group more than I will help another group so give me your vote.” Treat everybody the same – that’s what I say.
Z – Back in the 90s, Tipper Gore lead an effort to "Protect our kids" from the Internet, that would have imposed broad sweeping censorship mandates on US companies. The law she pushed reads nearly identical to China's. Fortunately, it did not pass. However, its still astonishing that a prominent figure in the US would crusade for such a broad censorship mandate, and that in hindsight, we tend to blame China for censorship while forgetting that we very nearly passed an identical law.
This should make the America haters in the U.S. happy. Throw in some Indian massacres and Civil War deaths, and the far left will eat it up. Think I am ranting? Read Daniel Flynn's book, Why the Left Hates America.
Quit trying to white wash history and just accept that it happened like the left.
China oppresses its own people. The US oppresses other people. In the end, both gov sucks.
100% ETHIO
you said, "No Jews and Dogs allowed in our (U.S and CANADA) beaches". Is it TRUE?
NOT TRUE!
Although it is recognized that there was and continues to be antisemite feelings in the USA, your reference is either a lie or you have access to material not found on the internet. We have found you to be very creative in the past.
The only racist piece we found, was "No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish".
It might be not politically correct, but the 'Gun ownership' issue is cause of so many deaths here that in true social sense it is a human right violation!
The USA tramples the rights of other people to govern themselves. We have invaded many countries in the name of "peace". China may not be the best at human rights, but at least they are not toppling governments and blowing stuff up all over the world like we are! We have military bases everywhere. WHY? Why are we always at war? And then we lecture China about human rights ... we are the neighborhood bully!
Well said, i just wished there would be more intelligent Americans like you.
They are content with killing and torturing Tibetians. Aside from their reeducation camps, they seem to be pretty nice Joes.
Beautifully said, Relictus. You nailed it good!
But what if the definition of human rights was expanded to include some of those things. Is it possible we could develop a society where people needn't live in fear of violence and discrimination? For example, you're at a traffic light that's turned green and the driver ahead of you is on the phone but you don't honk because they might have a gun. You're not even angry at them, you just want them to pay attention to your shared surroundings. Are you absolutely certain that living in fear of your "neighbors" armed over-reaction isn't an infringement of human rights?
I really dont know, but you might ask Travon Martin, or Z,
I would say they probably know more about human rights ,or the lack of them , than anyone on the planet.They have one of the longest written histories in the world and some that was written and destroyed.
And most of it was about war, enslavement-of their own people, torture, and about a thousand years of a society grounding the population into the ground. Should make good reading.
Personally I think our state department should refrain from issuing things that are pure opinion.We fail to take in the a lot misery in this country and abroad is brought on by many that would not have it any other way.It has become a way of life to live in some sort of misery to get on the liberal governments side.
Thats right, the neocons would never dream of grinding the economy into the ground, starting an undeclared war, and keeping the country on its knees so that it can elect another one of its own.
No, the point of the article is "U.S. self-righteousness in authority over 'other' nations in human rights." Honestly U.S. has NO MORAL STANDING anymore with the rest of the world or it's own people. The facts are there on how they treat people here and are right on the news .... folks.
Thats correct just ask Z.
If you don't like the 2nd amendment Fahreed. GET OUT. Get out of my country. Violence is wrong and disturbing. But people kill people. You still have spree killers that do not use guns all over the world as we speak.
98% of lawful gun owners use them to target shoot and hunt for food and sport and to protect themselves and their families from those that would do them harm. I'll say it again. If you can't tolerate this, get out.
Upper US
in fact, just check the original report, you'll find the article here covered only a small part of the report. The prc report focused more on:
Patriot Act and Homeland Security Act brings internet censorship.
Conducting human experiment abroad.
Arresting reporters in Occupy movement.
and aren't they all related to human right?
also, i dont know whether crackdown on Occupy protesters belongs to 'human rights' issues in US. but i do know if something similar happened in prc, no doubt it will relate to human rights.
another fact is that, just search "2011 annual report on human rights around the world"(of course in Chinese) on baidu, the largest Chinese search engine, and you'll find a brief introduction of the report. Although it's too 'brief', it summarized major concerns of the report.
US is doing much better than prc in human rights, but only currently. And I wanna know: do you american guys know exactly whether it is getting better? or actually getting worse? Or you just think it's the best and cannot be better?
I know in prc it's getting better year by year, although slow.
human right movement is the evolution result of human conscious. It's an idea, long term goal. It must be better, not worse than yesterday.
Why i said that CCP is Evil?
1) CCP take the land away from the land owner and give to poor farmer to establish it's earlier control.
2) because of CCP's industrialization, CCP take land away from farmer, convert national resource to privat eone and it belong only to CCP memebers.
3)CCP never calms down and admit what it has been wrong since mao and contunue to fool its citizens.
Again, The human right can only make progress, not backward....
Personally, I like to start a war against CCP and wipe them completely from China.
Wow, this thread is a huge joke. United States has a bunch of humans rights issues and this article is just a propaganda piece satirically saying that we're perfect and nothing is wrong. The War on Drugs is a major humans rights issue. All the simple day to day BS that America goes through just to justify what it does. Continue to perpetuate the illusion that everything is fine, CNN. One day it won't be and you will be sorry.
Of all the countries that have develped nuclear weapons, why are we the only country to ever use them? The bombs that devastated both Hiroshima and Nagasaki could have been dropped just as easly over Tokio Harbor without killing anyone with the same results. That country whose name starts with a J would have surrendered in either case. So let's not so quick to criticize others for human rights abuses!
Quigley is a muslim extremist who is on 24/7 spewing poison about the USA.
It is AKA:
George Patton,
J. Foster Dulles,
Joseph McCarthy,
Travis,
Marine5484,
Yacobi,
Warren,
Quigley,
Vin,
Willie12345
Patrick-2
@ Patrick don't cha have a life, bro? Chill man...say something of value. anything. How do we know you are not one of them. Get my drift?
To spit on hinduism, denial of truth absolute is noble by any standard, not hinduism, absurdities against truth absolute by hindu's, ignorant s like you. Have life, truth to be a human, essence of human, spirit, truth than to be a hindu secular, filthy self centered, like god of hindu's, Monkey.
The only thing straight about the Chinese is their hair!
You sure or are you being shy?
The wealth gap is 100000 times worse in China. Obviously the US has more unemployment we dont pay someone $200/ to sweep streets with a broom from the 1500s. The issue of minorities.... China claims "55" ethnicities but Han chinese are about 92%.
CCP members need to be tracked. they are abuser for human right for 3 generations.
Ithey are the lowest level of human being on earth.
I am a total tool.
I am in America to create troubles and raise shyatt.
I keep creating problems everywhere i GO.
Now that I think about it, I have been trolling ever since America accepted me to this country.
I hate everything about America because these fools are not muslim.
YOU ALL MUST FOLLOW ALLAH!
ALLA will love theose CCP evil heads
ram ram ram
Forgive me Patrick for I have sinned.
Ram, Tam, Ram in to hindu's hind, hindu ignorant Ram was married to his sister by hindu accounts.
I tried following him, but he was walking too fast.
Why are you guys giving it all away.
Do not tell them that we are an advanced force to destroy America and make these stupid Americans bow to Allah.
hey, who is this allah fella anyhow
These stupids americans let us come here and talk shyatt about their country, women, children.
How stupid can you be??????
hare om hare om. I will be back shortly have to go clean toilets in hot pillow motel
I keep stealing your name Patrick because I want to be you.
I HATE MYSELF.
I am an Indian and I eat beef jerky after cleaning toilets in hotels, motels, diners.
My father used me like a woman.
and I like it.
what tribe?
These frigging americans let us walk in and take over.
Americans are sissies with big butts.
Hello, My name is Patrick and i am a drug addict.
When my imam send me to america-he bang my a$$ real good.
I miss his big dike.
Which americans are you talkin about, canadian americans, south americans, indian hindu americans, indian native americans, mexicans americans ..pls clarify
White Hispanics
Ha ha ha
hey, watch who you call a sissy; especilly with a big butt
I did not post any of these statements.
I am, however, enjoying it.
Please check with your lte, iphone, bb, android to see that this is not my thread.
I love causing all kinds of evil crop on this site.
I LOVE THE WAY I CAN TALK CROP ALL DAY LONG AND EVERY MONTH THESE FRIGGIN AMERICANS GIVE ME WELFARE.
I don't believe you, not ringing true. Just sayin.
Please tell alquaeda I not coming back.
They know you well so help me out with that.
I am a bad muslim.
I want to become Jewish, or Catholic, or Hindu.
Help me.
Let us both admit that we love each other and want to get married by the church.
We are a gay couple who will stay true to each other.
We have learned well in america.
I love you both. Will you accept me as your wife to be shared.
Try mormon, they women have cute tusshies
I am gay.
I take American name because Americans are the best people in the world.
I am so jealous.
No tell my imam-he kill me.
Me again
I so angry, I beat up my wife and children.
I show them who is boss.
Hare hanuman hare geeta hare ram. It is me again
I was taught to lie, cheat, abuse, denigrate from an early age. As a good muslim, I understand that allah condones all this. I am so happy to be a muslim men.
Yes, our gun violence seems to be directly tied to portions of our society that with low civilian gun ownership rates. The old method of developing peace and security was to deputize the local population, by the sheriff, and thus reduce violent crime greatly. It still works across Europe in those places that participate, and in the US where the country participates. It's hardly reasonable to blame rural guns for gun control urban area gun violence, in fact, it completely fails to critically examine real evidence, due to the emotion of being afraid of guns.
But... but... but... Rmoney LOVES communist China... he spent 20 years sending our jobs to communist China. Does that mean Rmoney Believes in Amercia or does he Believe in China?
Stupid americans.
Europe is ours.
You are next.
We will kill your children and make more brown babies with your wives.
All will know the good, kind allah.
Ram Ram ram.....this is me Patrick writing not Jim Black.....hare krishna hare ram
See how good I am, I can be anyone. I am so smart.
we now have a federal "security" group that can legally monitor anything we do without any court protection
we can be inarcerated or killed without recourse to the courts
"security zones" are enforced to prevent civil protest
more people are jailed in the US than anywhere else in the civilized world
corruption seldom results in jail or real punishment for politicians that are in favor with an occassional moron (chicago ex mayor for example) being prosecuted to make us feel better
sure, we have the moral high ground to criticize china. this isnt america anymore.
Glad to see another intelligent American, hope to see more.
Conclusions from US presidential debates.
ONE: Pakistan holds the key to the next presidential elections in USA
SECOND: Pakistan should be made a permanent member of the UN Security Council in recognition of its contributions and sacrifices in fighting the terror war and making the world safe and prosperous for US/NATO/ and the rest of the world
The thread is being followed.
Patrick did not make that comment.
Run for it, they know who we are.
The FBI came to my place last night and they know all about us.
Run to Mexico.
The imam will send you further instructions.
Stop harassing Patrick.
We have serious problems.
The authorities know all about us.
I am not going to go through the escape route.
When we go home to Iraq, they will use us as bombers.
I want to live!
I WILL DEAL WITH ALLAH LATER.
Every time I steal Patrick's moniker, I laugh so hard that I pipe my pink panties.
Sounds like they actually believe the liberal talking points.
What gives the Americans the right to define human rights? Exactly what gives a person the right to be selfish, and enjoy whatever their heart desires at the expense of an entire population? The Chinese government makes a point of ensuring that the vast majority of the 1.6 billion people in the country are better off then a meager 1% that demands their own selfish ends. It's about time other countries accept that as individuals we can't have our cake and eat it too.
(I AM CANADIAN!)
Human riight is promated by UN before CCP was found. Go to UNwebsite to see details
It's the duty for every government to promate it. CCP does not teach the principle at China and produce a person as you are at canada.
That's I sad repeatly, CCP is evil
I was in China again recently. A tour guide who worked with us, himself a college grad success story from the peasant class told us that 85% of all Chinese are not in the party and live at subsistence level – without any govt support. 15% are actually allowed in the party and of those – the factory workers who are party members enjoy retirement in their early 50s with nearly full wages. The disparity is great. But to be fair – the disparity between those who have and those who do not seems to increase every year – round the world.
Very funny story most of what they listed is just bad management including the current administration. No way government management of anything is ever going to work. They may be able to do some oversight but manage something like health care in the country no way.
America's incarceration rate (1 out of 132 according to the article) would be much lower if we followed China's example of simply shooting people in the head and sending the bill for the bullet to their family BEFORE the trial. Not sure that's an improvement though.
CNN censored my post because it exposed Mr. Zakaria's understanding of Second Amendment. With all due respect, in two words, he doesn't!
American's gun ownership just went up a teeny little percentage...I just bought another gun...to protect me from my government should it decide to disarm or enslave me.
I think we had more John Wayne movies than anyone on the planet also. and maybe clint eastwood, gunsmoke, and rifleman television shows. so they are pretty indoctrinated in patriarchy at this point.
Of all the human rights violations our government is guilty of, they pick those? I'm disappointed. These people are amateurs.
The U.S. LOVES to point the accusatory finger at other countries and their values and norms.
We execute peopple in prison.
We discriminate against Hispanics (the first Americans on this hemisphere)
We support the brutalization of Arabs and Muslims in the Mideast at the request of Israel.
We continue to segregate our people by race and by economic status
We are waging 2 wars at the same time and just left another (Libya)
We stole 1/3 of Mexico
We stole all of what used to be new Spain
We try to make other countries conform to our values and our norms and our Chirstian values.
We supply weapons to half the world
We consume 1/2 of the illegal drugs in the world
It goes on an on.
The U.S. cannot afford to criticize others.
It's time other countries point out OUR backwardness.
Take that, Hillary "Stand by Your Man" Clinton!!!!
Thank you pierce, I couldn't have said it better! Hilary Clinton turns my stomach upside down with her unmitigated arrogance and her "holier than thou" self-righteousness!!
u.s. was founded by violence. and it remains addicted to violence.
Pierce is AKA;
jr,
Chen
Ming Wien,
John Henry,
Jai Smondi,
T-Bone Thakur
Sajjad Sialkoti,
Jeremy,
Jim Black,
MJ,
KRM1007,
Beefsteak Balaji,
Jim Black
Peter Haas,
James McDonald,
UberNewsNetwork (UNN) Copyrighted,
Henry Dickinson,
No Nonsense American,
NO INDIANS IN MY BACKYARD PLEASE,
Larry Rubin,
Esposito
Hadden
Dwayne Williamson
Betty S.
Old Man Clark
Frieze
Chad
Chad H
Ashok L. Krishnamurthy
Shut up fareed. The treatment of the occupy protesters is a human rights violation at minimum.
Let's take over CCP by war, bring their members to court.
What is going on with this article's writer ? This guy never tell the truth and do make up story. The Chinese public aware of US human rights report. We all know the report on the chinese news. next time make up some story people can't find out you are lying
Gun Ownership is crazy? Tell that to the Minutemen.
More people die of second hand smoking in the US every year compared to those killed in an assault riffle attack. That is also true for every other nation.
If republicans believe that guns don't kill people, but rather people kill people, then why are they so up set about Operation Fast and Furious? They should be applauding it. I've noticed that those who talk up guns and who own more than one usually are compensating for a small body part between the legs. Go to an NRA convention and you'll see a lot of unmanly-men.
Considering that 34 billion dollars has been spent on riot gear in the last ten years (that's a lot, if you cant tell), it is pretty evident that the US government is afraid of its own people. And what is that equipment being put to use on? Protesters, of course.
And let's not forget the latest provisions in the defense budget that allow the military to arrest anyone "suspected" of helping terrorists, and hold them indefinitely without trial. We have a secret police essentially!
As far as foreign policy is concerned, how many peaceful legitimate governments have we toppled in favor of a dictator who'll play ball with us?
With that being said, I think China has more than enough to work with. It doesn't have a very strong argument concerning gun rights and income inequality however.
The "patriot act": at the sign of trouble our government takes away our rights and, you'll notice, we haven't gotten them back yet.
"Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither" - Thomas Jefferson.
As a Chinese, I have to say we can see the human rights report in our Chinese websites!
Obviously, China has not learned from Qing Dynasty mistakes. A closed society will always fall behind the rest of the world. China's censorship is closing half way, but this half way is putting China at risk. With enemies everywhere, China will be divided and conquered if there is a war break out. China should heed advise from the U.S. and open up. It's good for China.
good to hear there's so many people with "good advice" for China ... (they seem to know better than Chinese leaders how to run this culture) ... so that they become even stronger!
And that's a good thing... because if the China "experiment" fails, then the whole world economy will go down with it.
If China goes down, so will we Fred and that will not be good. In fact, China owns a great deal of our national debt which in turn makes our unnecessary and excessive military spending possible! Without the Chinese, our own economy would be far more depressed than it is right now!
The I D I O T who stole Patrick's moniker used to be my friend until he attacked my little boy.
I can see now that he is a piece of shyatt.
Fareed,
We should pay heed to a Chinese report on our rights? You've got to be kidding! Go suck eggs.
Mr. Zakaria, I beg to speak with you. Please give me two minutes of your time. I am not a radical! I do have an important economic observation that I wish greatly to share with you. It is timely, highly relevant, serious, and not being considered. I am a business owner, a good and respected citizen, and a regular reader of your's. Please hear me out?
(you have my email with this post.)
I am making Indians look bad again. This is what Indian students do while studying abroad…plagiarize and cheat. I have confused the genocide occurring in Indian Occupied Kashmir where we hindu Indians have and are still murdering millions of muslims with the genocide in Bangladesh where Indian Army soldiers massacred and r$ped millions of muslims and tried to blame the Arabs for it.
I am a hindu Indian and live in Kashmir. The Indian troops are killing innocent civilains here. Wonder where USA and Human Rights groups are. Hmmmm
Ashok L. Krishnamurthy used to be my friend.
Now I recognize him to be a piece of shyatt who steals other people's monikers to post inane comments.
Here are his other names:
jr,
Chen
Ming Wien,
John Henry,
Jai Smondi,
T-Bone Thakur
Sajjad Sialkoti,
Jeremy,
Jim Black,
MJ,
KRM1007,
Beefsteak Balaji,
Jim Black
Peter Haas,
James McDonald,
UberNewsNetwork (UNN) Copyrighted,
Henry Dickinson,
No Nonsense American,
NO INDIANS IN MY BACKYARD PLEASE,
Larry Rubin,
Esposito
Hadden
Dwayne Williamson
Betty S.
Old Man Clark
Frieze
Chad
Chad H
Ashok L. Krishnamurthy
INDIA: On a Goat and a Stick:
The problem with India is that is built on a system of cultural and societal values based on Hinduism which is a cult. Nations built on a cult seldom survive in the long run. You can only take it so far based on symbolisms of a goat and a stick with a skinny little man aka gandhi banging boys at night and spinning wheels during daytime.
I always suspected there was something weird about gandhi. Aren't you ashamed of being an Indian?
"Gandhi banging boys at night and spinning wheels during daytime."
Now, Patric speaks as Luka Rocco Magnotta
the evil CCP officials has no respect.
Do not believe anything this moniker thief says. The last time we ate lunch after going to the mosque, he wanted to bomb a pre-school.
Here are his other names:
jr,
Chen
Ming Wien,
John Henry,
Jai Smondi,
T-Bone Thakur
Sajjad Sialkoti,
Jeremy,
Jim Black,
MJ,
KRM1007,
Beefsteak Balaji,
Jim Black
Peter Haas,
James McDonald,
UberNewsNetwork (UNN) Copyrighted,
Henry Dickinson,
No Nonsense American,
NO INDIANS IN MY BACKYARD PLEASE,
Larry Rubin,
Esposito
Hadden
Dwayne Williamson
Betty S.
Old Man Clark
Frieze
Chad
Chad H
Ashok L. Krishnamurthy
I find Fareeds classification of China's critique of economic disparity as non human rights issues as the old feud between 1st generation and second generation rights. To prioritise civil and political rights over economic and social rights is a classic liberalist thinking that suits the West well. Human rights embodies civil, economic, social and even cultural rights.
yawn china speaks yawn
Newsflash China, most of the "minority" groups are not really minorities. They just call themselves minorities to get special attention. And the problems that they have are self caused. America has something that China does not have, liberties, and minorities choose to create their own problems and expect others to solve it for them. BTW, how diverse is China anyway? Hmmm, hypocrisy? I think so.
What about the right to have religeous beliefs in anything other than Buddhism? Funny how no one mentions people being murdered in china for their beliefs in Christianity and God.
CCP destroy ALL religion already in China. CCP has no respect to human spirit.
During the culture revolution, they encourge the student to kill their teachers, no mention what gappened the church
Americans HATE when a mirror is held up to themselves. China does not like mirrors either but this report is full of facts. How you interpret it is beside the point. Fact is fact. "Ignorance is the horse that wisdom rides on". Z. Neale Hurston AMERICANS NEED TO GET IT TOGETHER!
tWhat is the difference between evil and ignorance?
CCP is evil,not ignorance. They know what they are doing.
What American need to learn from the mirror is to start a war against CCP. It will be the most human thing to deal with Evil.
I think the point of the report is to open our eyes a little. When we read somthing like this it should cause us to think a little and not simply recite the same old opinions we have carried for years. Sure there is a lot in both countries that need to be improved. Sure there are some serious and growing social problems in the USA. This cannot be denied and the criticism needs to be embraced where there is truth in it. My biggest take is that China is now competing with America in the world of international public opinion. At the end of world war 2 America held a position where almost every country could look up to for leadership. China is now challenging that. The best way to address it, is to try and deal with the obvious moral issues that exist in America so that the moral perogative can be maintained. Gun control is not the issue, but more sinister things like invading other countries, the growing control off government by big business and also the biggest one of all is the use of torture. These things really change how the world perceives America. China is looking forward to a time when they can take the moral perogative. They are not stupid they know Tinamen square is damaging, they know limiting criticism on the internet is damaging. They are slowly addressing these things. In the meantime, poking little holes in America. The best thing to do is clean up those things that clearly need to be fixed because you know China is doing it on their end.
"The best way to address it, is to try and deal with the obvious moral issues that exist in America so that the moral perogative can be maintained."
Who liberate the black slaves in States?
CCP are slaving one quarter of human being as slaves NOW. We, American, need to do it again!!!!
"Tinamen square is damaging, they know limiting criticism on the internet is damaging. They are slowly addressing these things"
Do you know that the parents of those killed students at Tinamen do not even know where the body of their kids are?
One of them commit suitcise this spring after 30 years.
Evil is Evil, How does the Bible teach us to deal with Evil ?
The issues Fareed raised are indeed not human rights violations but reflections of bad public policy. However, there are many points to raised about US domestic and international violations of human rights: at home our prisons are appalling and the use of private companies to run them approaches human trafficking. We remain – along with China, Saudi Arabia, Iran for example – one of the few countries that still has the death penalty. Abroad we continue to pursue a policy of assassination and use of drones that kill innocent people almost every day. Collateral damage as it is called is a war crime. Torture is also outlawed and we are a signatory to that treaty, but it was sanctioned in the Bush administration and they tried to avoid the term using terms like enhanced interrogation techniques.
So the US has much to answer for and little room to criticize and that is a shame.
We all know the answer that President Bush start the Iraq war, right? it's a very selfish one.
The President Obama did it smartly and avoid the war.
Same thing we can do with CCP, think about it deeply.
What if those evil CCP members are killed during the Tinamen square ceremony? Do you call it assassination?
The Chinese has been abused for 3 generations by CCP. If you think about a abused family for generations, how and who they can ask for help?
Of course they cannot call Rambo or Anderson Cooper
IDuring the past, One of the Chinese King has been kidnapped by its enemy.
What if CCP members are bought to court by uncle Sam as Mubarack by its citizen?
In this case, the history can and should repeat itself.
yes it is
>>>>Patrick INDIA: On a Goat and a Stick:" You can only take it so far based on symbolisms of a goat and a stick with a skinny little man aka gandhi banging boys at night and spinning wheels during daytime.<<<<
Literally, thatis what the evil corrupt CCP members are doing day and night.
except CCP spin the production lines during the day.... wakeup American
Pat, I want to know why you are not at the Bilderberg Meeting or even reporting on it? Why as a Christian, are you not standing up to this evil in this world with Prayers & Leadership, shining Gods light on their Darkness being executed in secret right now as the Global Agenda?
You should be rallying people peacefully to be there with the protesters and leading them in prayers for this world and Country, and binding up the Principalities and Powers of Darkness as they discuss our demise right in your own backyard. Why is there not even a whisper of this event coming from CNN and who do you really stand up for, the Globalists or God? Shame on you!
I want to ask you why this is your only post.
The Chinese Communist Party doesn't want to claim up to it's bloody history so they are throwing what has happened in our country in our faces. This is the same tatics they used on their own people for decades. They want us to hate eachother and blame eachother while the snake sneaks away and does harm to the farm. It's under the name of "struggle"
A good person will help stop a murderer or an arson etc no matter where you are on this earth. If it is wrong it is wrong. Let's not argue and fall into this snake's den.
If you want to keep up with what is going on in China and how it affects us, please see an awesome daily printed paper in NYC and has about 33 different languages online – at http://www.en.epochtimes.com
FYI:
According to the United Nations' Human Rights Rapporteur, Falun Gong is the largest targeted genocide in China today. Falun Gong is from the Buddha School and believes in self-cultivation and exercises while aspiring to Truth, Compassion and Tolerance in their daily lives.
http://www.faluninfo.net
About time some one called the US out, i just wish they went into more detail.
US in general is over critical about other countries, I can't agree more....If we just look last decade there is only one country in entire world which has killed most civilian in rest of the world...God is definitely there and he will sure serve justice one day.
We do have a lot of problems internally. With such comparison with China, we are a little bit better than they, sadly enough. Our government is dysfunctional. Politicians work in their own favor rather than for the public. We do not panelize Wall Street criminals because we do not have law against such form of wealth transfer (basically fraud.) The Fed prints money like there is no tomorrow to tranfer our money to bail our Wall Street. Our elected official can be openly bribed by the lobbyist etc and thus new laws are created in favor of the money source. Our drunk drivers are free to kill with little panelty. Victims do not have rights. The President cheats people into starting Iraq War and borrow $Trillion from China to fight the war. The government does not want people to know what they did so stamp file "CLASSIFIED" to prevent people from accessing. The JFK assassination case in 1963 is still classified today. The worst US Human Rights violation is Fed's stealing money from the people by printing money and zero interest rate that slaughters those who save for retirement. Fed is killing people without having to use guns and knives. Fred steals money from people leaving them no money to live on. One can go on and on but the bottom line is that almost all governments are pretty much the same – filled with crooked politicians.
I am quite certain that our government is better than China because it does not harvest human organs from the executed criminals like China does. But our government does send soldiers to kill people in other countries in the name of national defense.
Actually Sam, the so-called "war on terrorism" is the war of American expansionism in disguise as we conquer country after country halfway around the world. Today for example, Iraq is no more than a U.S. satellite state like Poland was to Russia after WW2! By the way, you forgot to mention what we're doing to our political prisoners at Gitmo! We must clean house first before we throw stones!!!!!!!!!!
This guy keeps talking like he is American but he is nothing but an islamist piece of pig excrement.
He only knows what he was born to.
@Chen........Patrick-2 is as american as apple pie.
My name is Patrick and i am a hypochondriac. I am AKA
jr,
Chen
Ming Wien,
John Henry,
Jai Smondi,
T-Bone Thakur
Sajjad Sialkoti,
Jeremy,
Jim Black,
MJ,
KRM1007,
Beefsteak Balaji,
Jim Black
James McDonald,
UberNewsNetwork (UNN) Copyrighted,
Henry Dickinson,
No Nonsense American,
NO INDIANS IN MY BACKYARD PLEASE,
Larry Rubin,
Esposito
Hadden
Dwayne Williamson
Betty S.
Old Man Clark
Frieze
Chad
Chad H
Ashok L. Krishnamurthy
This islamic piece of muslim shyatt has stolen Patrick's moniker.
LIPSTICK ON A PIG: The Story Of India
Mirror Mirror on the Wall.....show the Indian Hindus who is the slimiest of them all.
The way you let the shadows play
You’d think my hair was getting gray.
What’s that, you say? A double chin?
No, that’s the way the light comes in.
Self Denial …Self Denial…. Is the Hindu play.
Maybe catharsis is another way
This is not a comment Patrick has made.
The real Patrick has switched monikers.
I am patrick and i made this comment.
China criticizing any country about human right is a joke.
It is a shame that China is kicking us Indians around like a football. Now they want to kick us out of the Chinese sea. Pakistan is already referring to the Indian ocean as the Pakistan Ocean. Americans have made us babysitters to Afghanistan and Bangladesh cleaning up and changing their diapers.. Maybe this fits our cowardly national character better
We had our chance and blew it. India's GDP is down to a snail's pace, currency rupiah is tanking, poverty is all time high and Americans are all over us. We escaped the Soviet clutch but will not survive the American Boston crab. Worse, we now have to kiss the Pakistani ring as the new military leader in the region. It is a shame no doubt but we gotta do what we gotta do to survive. Hope China does not get aggresive otherwise we are done.
This piece of shyatt pig excrement has stolen Patrick's moniker.This guy is not an Hindu but a muslim who hates anything American or Indian or, basically anything not Sunni. This as swipe is so stupid that he thinks he is smarter than any of us. He keeps spouting allahisms such as "all infidels must die".
Patrick will no longer be using his name to post. He will post but he will be using another moniker.
He has many monikers trying to hide but uses the same email address so that if you have a bb, lte, android or iphone you can spot him. All email addresses are assigned a colour and symbol unless you have your picture attached to your emaii address.
He he AKA:
jr,
Chen
Ming Wien,
John Henry,
Jai Smondi,
T-Bone Thakur
Sajjad Sialkoti,
Jeremy,
Jim Black,
MJ,
KRM1007,
Beefsteak Balaji,
Jim Black
Peter Haas,
James McDonald,
UberNewsNetwork (UNN) Copyrighted,
Henry Dickinson,
No Nonsense American,
NO INDIANS IN MY BACKYARD PLEASE,
Larry Rubin,
Esposito
Hadden
Dwayne Williamson
Betty S.
Old Man Clark
Frieze
Chad
Chad H
Ashok L. Krishnamurthy
@ Patrick Good riddance. Don't come back till you you are cured of your paranoia. Her's one for the road. Enjoyyy!!
AN INDIAN SAGA
HUMPTY DUMPTY: Had a great fall
India is pretty much done. The bubble has burst. India is sliding downhill at supersonic speed. GDP growth has disappeared...the only growth left is the hair between their legs.
Child Soldiers of India
India as a nation is facing a new problem concerning its children- emergence of children as soldiers in strife -torn states of Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, AndhraPradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Nagaland and Assam. They are getting drawn into fighting both with rebel groups as well as security forces. What was considered a problem in African countries of Sudan, Sierra Leone and other countries like Sri Lanka and Nepal has become a reality for India too.
According to human right activists the actual number of children recruited by state or non state groups as soldiers is not as obvious as in other countries but we know there is an increasing number of children being drawn into active combat.These children exposed to war and conflict are one of the most vulnerable groups often forced to witness or perpetrate combat atrocities. They are scarred for life, their childhood shattered.
For once I can agree with the Chinese. Unemployment is very high among working class people. So why don't they be proactive about it and SEND OUR JOBS BACK.
Puerto Rico is a US Colony. This is a shame for the US as colonialism is a crime against humanity. China still occupies Tibet. It is time for the US to lead by example, free Puerto Rico and them point your finger at China.
Puerto Rico would rather live with our welfare without any responsibilities. They reject statehood as well.
Well as an america, there are many thing that is still wrong, that china don't care or didn't know;
the ability to unable to separate state and church.(as church have too much power in government)
company trying to force government to give power of the internet to them (sopa and pipa)
lobbyist/corporation corruption
patriot act
Government funding to church.
gay/abortion issues
bush tax law
Many things China Report said are true. FZ is a agent of CFR and his job is to make eveything look "right" when they are wrong. Drones are killing innocent folks all over the world and they are coming to homeland.
We are the United States of America. To the rest of the world just shut up and do as we say!
Not anymore. China, Iran, India, Russia, Pakistan's, and more, response appears to be scrammmm beer bellies!
Fareed... I don't know if you're being intentionally disingenuous or just haven't read the article. Page one of the Beijing report plainly talks about deaths from US aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan and then goes on to call our economic treatment of Cuba as a form of genocide. That's just page one and it's much stronger accusations than our treatment of OWS protesters or high murder rate.
What are you, the spokesperson for America? Your whole rant was about how the U.S. isn't as bad as China. How about you give some intelligent answers?
Good old Farhud. Now that Lord Haw Haw and Tokyo Rose are no more, we still have you.
in the US- the treatment of african americans and other minorities in the criminal justice system is a human rights issue.
I invite you to spend one day in a local court and watch the black men be processed thru the system. you will never be so casual again.
in China- they do need a Bill of Rights and an enforcement process but I doubt the State Department Report will help them get one
Every time you buy "Made in China" you support the worlds largest Army, and Communism. But the Republicans are drunk with GREED and so now its okay to support Communism and not the American working class because its cheaper to do it in a third world country with slave labor.
Remember people of America that China owned you.They lend you so much money its unbelievable!
Not excusing PRC because let's face it, they totally suck when it comes to unalienable rights. However, we also need to remember that it was little more than 40 years ago we in the US were making some people drink out of other water fountains, sitting in special sections and banning them from public swimming pools.
I think both countries have their ills and we can spend decades arguing which one is worst. I'm going to avoid this question and note the peculiarity of China's rebuttal. I think we're seeing the United States losing its global hegemonic legitimacy. The transition is inevitable, as no global power ever maintains its hegemony forever. Hegemony is gradually lost through economic processes. However, hegemony has been truly lost after a great war (British Empire lost in in the World Wars). The United States can realize this historical pattern and can lose its hegemonic power peacefully; though I doubt it will and China seems willing to take it on. I'm not making a judgement call, per se, as I don't like U.S. hegemony, but I can't see Chinese hegemony being any better (only worse).
Oh Chinese hegemony will be far worse. Remember, the party that used to line dissidents up and mow them down in trenches just a few decades ago is still running that country. Remember the tanks in Tiananmen Square?
that is true we have the freedom of speech here but does anyone listen NO? anyone cares NO? WE ARE AS COMMUNIST AS THE CHINESE, WE JUST WORK FOR PAYING BILLS HERE NOTHING ELSE SO THAT IS CALLED SLAVERY. GOOD BYE GOOD TIMES FOR SIMPLE PEOPLE,,,,,THE RICH HAVE A HUGE GAP........
@Angela – US certainly has its issues. Absolutely but not even remotely close to having as rotten, morally repugnant an ideology as PRC.
BOX!!!! – Quote: "No, of course not. The report is banned in China, and any website that would dare to publish it would be censored and punished. Now that is an abridgment of freedom of expression — and an example of what a human rights violation looks like."
CNN.....Communist New Network......Thank God only a handful of people tune in to these idiots...CNN has one of the lowest TV ratings in all of cable news networks!
Still China simply reflect in this report how many in the world see the US. And there is not one real lie in this report.
The fact that one is not even sure how many points are a human rights violation made me smile.
Especially the point where a nation or reporter tries to hide behind bad public policy, but it's not tyranny. LOL define tyranny. The fun part is that none pause but simply go on. There are moments where the common interest is more important than the single human right. Even in the US.
Know what this is. First you trust ole Fred. Its a story for people that sit on the west coast watching tons of Chinese goods sail into California ports every single day and wonder why? Why don't we get deese jobs. Simply because of this. The monetary system of lending and loans. That is nothing but lending and loans. That you owe. So does your government. Is established in many nations and they like it this way. You gotta understand. See they have to calm people down about things like this. Now the Chinese guy dosen't work for less than you cause more than likely hes in debt to. When your in debt you may think you look swoopee. However all you do is owe. See even a poor guy can walk away you can't because your in the hole. Fred probably is to. Cause everyone likes to spend near the limit. It's kind of mandatory or they wouldn't give you that much. They really don't want that kind of technology and those kinds of industrial manufacturing plants here because they don't trust this place for some reason. Thats the bottom line. Plus its more workers and more assets for them in other places. Just when you thought you were special.
Civilians owning guns keeps the government in check. IF the Chineese populace was armed like America the Chinese government would lose its tyranical grip on the people. Over 30 million in China live in caves without sanitary...actual caves...that is almost the entire population of California. Does china actually REPORT all their lawlessness and gun violence? Im guessing not. We have a higher prison population because in most countries those people would have been executed and not incarcerated.
I would say that you are right on target.
How is the police violence against the OWS protesters not considered a human rights issue. They are attacking the right to protest and our freedom of speech.
China's reaction to criticism is only natural, for one they hardly hear one and two the term "human right" is not in any chinese dictionary. They reacted by giving us a mirror so we can look at ourselves. Not at all a bad move.
But we are talking of human rights here, as Zakaria would reminds us or rather the chinese. Instead of reminding the chinese of the agenda it would probably be more effective if Fareed would have given them a state of the art, kind a like hubble type, of mirror. So the chinese bureaucrats won't miss a thing when they look at themselves.
They would probably see that our 1% is equivalent to their .0000000000000000000000000000001% in China consisting of small controlling groups of bureaucrats and their business friends, holding probably something like 99.99999999999999999999999999% of China's wealth.
Ciao.
I am so tired of this guy constantly criticizing the US, or publicizing those who do. He never misses a chance to point out how awful we apparently are.
yea god forbid a reporter who is not a sheep and can show us how the world really is. I am sorry but criticism is always good. It might hurt you're material sense of pride. Bu that is how we improve ourselves
I am doing my part to get our gun ownership up to 90-95% in the world. As for our prison population being greater than in China, I guess they should stop just terminating people and helping them vanish, huh?
And looking at the comets here. No one took Fareed's advice. The US is becoming a 3rd world country and we are too stuck fighting which each other to notice. One day the Chinese will look at us as the same we used too look at the soviet Union.
China says: Beijing's report, by contrast, talks about the Occupy Wall Street movement — that its protesters were treated in a "rude and violent" way.
Oh really? It's not like we ran them over with tanks or anthing, right China?
Right but beating them in their heads with blunt objects is sure nice. Right now pot esters get treated more humanly in all the western countries than ever the US
I feel that we are missing the point here. The US has a right to critique our peers in the global community against our moral standards of right and wrong based on our culture. But the global community has just as much a right to criticize us as well based on their values. I find it interesting how many of the commenters jump to defend the US against others criticisms. Are we so great that others can't have a legit opinion of us. I recall how Cesar as he took his crown road through the main circus in Rome with a man at his ear saying remember you are a man. Maybe the US and many of our commenters could use a similar dose of reality. Remember the US is but one country. Powerful yes, having hegemony yes, but a single country among many. Maybe it best we not think so highly of ourselves that we forget that it is God who gives the increase. The Lord giveth...the Lord taketh away!
Eric - Nicely put...
Too many people in this country seem to think that we alone can stand against the march of history. 1945 is long gone, and the world of 1945 in which a handful of White men in Washington, London, and Moscow called the shots for all of humanity whether they liked agreed or not, is over. It can never be recreated. Maybe the friends of America need to whisper quietly, but repeatedly in the ears of all Americans everywhere (not just our diplomats and elected leaders): "Hegemony is fleeting."
Why American companies are helping the evil CCP party to slave the Chinese worker?
step 1: ( 1949- 1976) CCP gets all land from its citizens. They are very smart to achieve the goal, Can you? Think about it..
step 2 : ( 1977-now) Since CCP owns the land, they lend the land to American company FREE for 99 years and promise to supply the labor.
Now, the CCP slaves the Chinese as White slaved the Black. do you get it?
The REASON we don't have a government like China is exactly because so many firearms ARE civilian-owned. That isn't crazy, it shouldn't give anyone pause except those how don't have a sense of personal responsibility and would rather live in a dictatorship. The founding fathers were VERY afraid of the tyrannical power of government and took steps to assure that situation would never occur in the United States by guaranteeing that the right to private individual ownership of firearms.
Without that protection, there would have not been a United States for Mr. Zakarria to emigrate to and espouse his leftist views so freely. If it bothers him so much, I suggest he take a plane back to India as soon as possible.
First of all even with all the weapons that the civilians have they would not stand a shane against the Military technology that the US has. Second of all the only reason this country is great. Is because of immigration. We should be more nice to someone like mR Farreed because it is clear that our destruction will come from inside our country. And the only true Americans are the Native Americans so don't go telling people that they should leave just because you disagree with their opinion
So true. the founding fathers couldn't think of the weaponry the government would have today. so it would be true a long time ago that civilians could stop an army, it is most definitely no longer true. instead, we need to get lawyers instead of weapons in order to stop the army.
Bob, you're right. Paul, you're wrong.
BoB, if one day CCP own States, they will use a big machine to rundown your house one night and claim that there are oils beneath your house. what are you going to use your gun?
Our civilian owned weapons are not going to stop the US army from doing whatever the hell they want.
China's remarks about the U.S. problem with gun violence is true...That's why we need GUN CONTROL NOW!!!
Watch out, my friend, that CCP's goal to get rid of gun from this country, according to its evil past
ppl disappear in China, legally, lol
http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/09/22/why-are-people-disappearing-china-0
Get the cultural marxist school-wrecking "teachers" unions and their destructive and power-mad work rules out of public schools and children will actually get an education for a change. This will reduce prison populations in the medium to long term because minority urban males will actually bet an education and jobs. Education dollars will also go much farther negating the effects of any cuts.
China's comments were true but do not measure any close to what is going on in China. People in US are absolutely spoiled. Take for example: occupy wall street. Lady yells and throws things at a cop from a side walk. the lady gets pepper sprayed. She claims police brutality. In china you would likely see lady getting arrested, jailed away somewhere without anyone being notified, possibly beaten torture without trial... I am sure that lady would of wished for the pepper spray.
I swear criticizing the US today is like criticizing a cult . people will call you a communist and tell you to leave this country. if you dare show some sign of rational thinking. Its very un christian to think that this country is perfect.
If somebody means to do you harm, they're going to find a way. I have to wonder at Mr. Zakariah's motives, in light of the fact that he states that he wants us all powerless at the hands of criminals.
Think about if CCP owns this country, do you want to have gun? I bet you. Study its evil past
What China published is the most sugar-coated review of America's human rights violation. China should point out America's daily genocide in Afghnistan and Pakistan. America maims and oblitrates the lives of thousdands of women, children and men through the use of its drones. If this is not a systematic and blatant human rights violation, then God know what human rights violation is. By far, America is the leading human rights violator in every sense of of the phrase. We see it everyday on the news and sadly the world takes America's words.
Genocide, really? Buy a dictionary. You can argue that the lives being lost in Afghanistan and Pakistan are or are not justified. But genocide, please.
Are you an instigator Fareed?
Zakaria is wrong on a few of these issues in that they are indeed human rights issues. When the widening gap between rich and poor means that poor often go without needed heath care in the most powerful country in the world, that is a human rights issue. And it is not fair to simply state that XX million people lack HEALTH INSURANCE, when we all know that a lack of health insurance in the country means a lack of HEALTH CARE. It means people die of preventable diseases. It means poor people die of treatable cancers while rich people get lifesaving treatments. That is a human rights issue. And having the world's largest prison population, yet apparently being a "FREE" country, is a human rights issue. Having courts and governments barring Muslim groups from building mosques on private land, just as they would allow any Christan church to do so, tin this courty that preaches FREEDOM OF RELIGION, that is a human rights issue.
In reality the US and the western governments are responsible for many horrible human rights crimes. China and the Russians are also responsible for human rights crimes. But lets not fool ourselves we have a shadow government that does what ever it wants in the global stage. JFK warns us of this secret military.
No Fareed, you're very wrong. What in thecworld is crazy about the US civilian population owning 35-50 percent of the worlds firearms. Thank God we do, and the only "pause" required is one to thank God for it. If we didn't, what would stop any governent including our on from taking all our rights away. The fore fathers understood this clearly, why has it been lost on so many small minded people such as Fareed?
Fareed:
While you make good points, you are such an unabashed lefty that you lose all credibility. We have the ACLU here that points out flaws in our system. In Russia or China there is no ACLU...case closed.
Ask Chinese or Russian dissidents where they feel there is more freedom..guess what they will say.............................................................you are an example of why OBAMA will lose this fall
You are a example of a partisan brains dead voter who can't see beyond what his party tells him to see. please continue you're simple minded outlook at this world cause it will lead to you're countries demise. The notion that anybody in this government cares about the american people is weak and naive
...huh? I don't like the right-wing social conservatives in my party at all...RIck Santorum is an idiot...but we will win in the fall because OBAMA is simply a socialist...period. He will not win.
Bill, the current guns that American owns are not big enough than China's millitary weapons, right?
So, why don't we just bring the war against China ASAP?
We think that our country is so great but we pay taxes that feed and grow China. But products and flags that are made in China. And go to wars that Chia benefits from. Our county is nothing but proxy colony for the Chinese and the british
I don't get the argument that guns aren't dangerous until people get ahold of them. The goal of the NRA isn't to put a huge pile of guns in the middle of a field somewhere devoid of human contact. Instead, the objective is to get them into the hands of as many people as possible, with no minimum qualifications concerning age, disposition or psychosis, and celebrate their use as a symbol of our machismo. THAT'S dangerous. Gun culture in this country, viewed from any distance, is an embarassment.
If CCP own this country in the future, even the gun is not power enough, study its past
I like to start a war against China ASAP
Vote Phillip Anthony Biondo for President 2012 of the Fraternity Party! Brandon Gilligan USN for VP. Free College like k-12. Free Healthcare. All safe drugs, as determined by doctors, prescription and illegal will be legal.
Sorry Fareed, but there is no moral equivalency between the U.S. and China. Not even close. You are incredibly naive.
Chris:
The points wasn't to compare our moral positions. It was encouraging us to be introspective.
I actually agree with what they point out. The most glaring is the growing separation between rich and poor - and this is only getting worse. I will NEVER vote for a Republican in my lifetime...
Today, you are free but poor. If CCP owns this country, you will be slave. Thinsk about it and study evil CCP's past
Chris, I in no way am saying that their govt. and law-of-land is better. I am just saying that there's a lot to be concerned about with our own nation - if you can back away and try to be objective about it. And, I don't see it getting better.
"The report points out, for example, that with 5% of the world's population, we own between 35% and 50% of its civilian-owned guns.
That's crazy and should make us all pause." ...........
He's right, that is crazy. It's crazy that the rest of the world does not enjoy the freedoms that we do. It's crazy that he sees this stat as being a bad reflection on the U.S. I don't find it surprising that a country like China would see it as a bad thing. The reason that we have more guns in civilian hands is that we have that freedom and that we have that prosperity. We have the Mayor of our largest city trying to outlaw big gulps for crying out loud. Thank goodness that Mayor Bloomberg knows what is good for us. First we blame guns for killing people, to those that do the shooting, now we blame big gulps for obesity, not the choices that people make.
If this is all that China can come up with, we are not that bad off. Remember, the people that attacked the schools in China and stabbed children, didn't need guns. Obviously, it was the fault of the knife and banning knives would prevent this from happening again.
We're not perfect, but if that's the best that China can come up with, I'm encouraged.
A good measure of the state of a country is whether people want to immigrate or emigrate. I'll take my chances with China on that measure.
The 2nd Amendment was a protection against our government ever thinking it could become like China's and suppress our rights. Thus, there is no limit to the type of arms the people should have, period. If you read about Thomas Jefferson, he was for revolution with bloodshed every few years just to keep government honest. A bit extreme but his view as a founding father. The 2nd Amendment protects our country whose laws rest with the individual and our very lives and property against not just the spectre of a tyrannical government but also any stranger next door or even foreighn power who may want to take by violence what we have fought in blood to retain from America's inception. China and other gov't fear a country with 300 million armed people.. There are many references in history where countries do not want to invade the United States because there is a "gun around every corner". Amen. Let freedom reign!
China is on its way UP.
The US is on its way DOWN.
Guess who is the one and only winner.
There can only be one winner.
if we know how evil CCP is, our generation should make a difference. That is to start a war aginst CCP, not Chinese.
Oh... and China has all the infrastructure and technology to make that work? Not so, my little puppet. Your theory makes for fascinating reading, but little else. China needs the US to be a powerful consumer. If anything, China wants the status quo – just as it was during the Cold War, stability makes prosperity.
Many Americans do not read and do not know any history other than their own propaganda. China was building and creating things of value and was trading with many nations for many centuries before there was a United States, and long before the rise of the West and the modern trading system. Societies as diverse as ancient Rome and 18th century England craved Chinese porcelain and silk and were unable to master the techniques of producing these goods for themselves. Unlike Africa, China successfully expelled European colonists and it is in control of its own land, resources, and destiny. Many Westerners don't like that. They prefer broken, powerless, dependent states which they can manipulate as they (and their multi-nationals) see fit. Too bad. Modern China trades with the entire world. In spite of what many in the United States like to believe, it is not dependent upon any one region or nation.
The US has the worlds largest prisoner population in the world, both per capita and in total numbers. Louisiana has more people in it's prison system than the whole of China. Tie that with the privatized / work prisons the US uses where inmates work for pennies as part of their prison sentence and you're looking at the world's largest slave population. The US didn't abolish slavery, they just changed it's name. And by making laws that create a social environment where going to prison is extremely easy, specifically for minorities and the less educated, our society has been taught that "criminals" should go to jail. And though that belief is a good one, the real issue is we don't care, as a society, what happens to them while in jail. And not being informed about private prisons and what goes on there because we tend to not care what happens to criminals after they're dealt with is making us look bad to the rest of the world, namely China. We here in the US like to think of ourselves as this great torch bearer of all things good and sacred when in fact we have created the worlds largest population of slave labor
To compound the issue, our government has propagated inaccuracies about China to the American public. Take, for example the One Child policie. As described and understood in the US, All Chinese citizens are only allowed to produce one child. Extras are "dealt with" or the parents are criminally charged. This is simply NOT the case. And two parents from single child homes can have more than one child. In fact, it's encouraged for them do to so. The One Child policy means children with siblings cannot have more than one child, non-sibling children can have more. This is the way it's always been. Slave wages in American corporation factories or Child Slavery charges are somewhat legitimate, however, those workers at Foxconn or those child slaves earn more than the tens of millions of Americans in private work prisons in the United States.
Ever since the United States government has realized the profitability of selling military equipment that source of revenue has steadily increased. Some estimates put government revenues from military sales around 20% of total income for our government, and untold fortunes to the corporations that produce these "goods". It may take a slightly different mindset to see this, but think about how the world, or some area of the world have constantly been under threat of attack or in constant strife that would require the need to purchase weapons. Weapons the US is only too happy to sell them. Pay attention to those countries that begin to depend on nations other than the US to fund / equip their militaries. See how those countries more and more become enemies. Pay attention to those countries that try to develop their own technologies without US involvement, see how they are vilified and attacked. We need to become aware of the possibility that the United States' interests may not be those of other countries. We should pay closer attention to the real words of other cultures and leaders. People are resentful of the West and the United States for propagating and creating situations in the world where the US can find political or monetary profit. We need to think outside the box here. I'm not suggesting I'm on a side here, just saying that the rest of the world is tired of what we do, our manipulation.
The last issue with all of this is our media. The people of the United States are done a huge inservice by our media. For the most part, our media doesn't cover or report or ask tough questions of our government. The media, or the Fourth Estate, is there to be the public watchdog on our government, not it's mouthpiece. Watch all the news outlets and you will, from time to time, begin to notice that regardless of the political leanings of the news outlet, the words are the same. The pundits, the talking heads, the packaged "news" reports ALL use the same language and catch phrases. Why? Why do certain words or phrases such as "Homegrown Terrorist" "Loan Wolf" "See Something Say Something" and many many more transcend FoxNews, CNN, MSNBC, and the networks? Why? Because they are all essentially reading from a memo, a script, a government handout. This is advertising. If you don't think our government is treating the people with news and information the same way a a cereal company sells children on Nickelodeon you're crazy. It's all the same, it's all marketing and advertising. Getting messages and themes and ideas in people's heads is easy. You repeat the message on "trusted" formats and outlets. The best part about it is you have no idea. The biggest marketing and advertising trick is making you think it was your idea / belief in the first place. That's how marketing works. So when you think you have some political belief or feel the need for some social call to action, just know that even though you thought it was your idea, it probably wasn't. It's how companies sell toys, cereal, and unlimited breadsticks at Olive Garden. It's a trick, it's used everyday, and it's the biggest secret in advertising. And if you think our government wouldn't do that to us, the people, you are fooling yourself. And this is why the United States News Media is raked 47th in the Free Press Index. And it's probably poopooed by US media and the government as being a non-legitimate ranking. But hey, North Koreans think they are the most free people in the world.
As long as the United States has the largest prison industrial complex in the world, it really doesn't matter how loudly it criticizes or condemns other nations for their human rights violations. Only Americans believe that their runaway prison system with its slave labor, corporate sponsorship, and secret prisons is actually any different or any better than the Communist gulags which they condemned years ago.
widening the gap between rich and poor — again, not a human rights issue-–sounds like Fareed, with his low life from where he came from
Wow, really? Tasteless.
Our nation is out of control, we don't have freedoms, only privileges and these are also being taken away from us. It's time for the American people to fight for our rights and take back our country from the rich and corrupt in our office.
China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. Who can guarantee that with gun control that the same thing would'nt happen in the US? Can we take that chance?
NO, we can not. That's why I promote a war against CCP, not Chinese, ASAP.
Seems like the Chicoms know how to call a spade a spade- huh? Amerika ain't as good as we would wish to believe.
Fareed, you saved the best to last.
'Of course, it would be equally important for the Chinese public to read the State Department report on China. Could a Chinese news network put it on its website maybe?
No, of course not. The report is banned in China, and any website that would dare to publish it would be censored and punished. Now that is an abridgment of freedom of expression — and an example of what a human rights violation looks like.
Rude to OWS protesters? The Chinese way is to mow them down with tanks! (and not let the press report on it!)
What a crock.
I do think there are some great things about Chinese society that surpass ours here in USA, but this area is not one of them.
If you're able to read this, then you know you're in a free country. You can bash anybody you want on here. As a matter of fact, you can bash the President of any country if you like. Try that if you're in China right now. Oh, BTW, if you're in China, there's no point in reading this. Thanks God, for the free world, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
Folks, Experimental democracy is DOA (Dead On Arrival) in India. It is has never worked in large populated countries. Particularly those with mostly illiterate populace such as India. Too big to manage, minorities such as muslims, sikhs, christians get disenfranchised etc. India will need to go back to its socialist/communist roots.
Fareed, Good work.
you can make a huge difference foe this loving country, if you can dig out the CCP's past. espcially from 1949 -1976.
Dig out the corruption between CCP members and American's company in China.
The conclusion may be very simple, We need a war against CCP, not Chinese, asap.
Dig out the corruption between CCP members and American's company in China---why don't you coward do this yourself? You are owned by corporates right? Get some real skills for your low life.
I have been to China twice. My most recent visit was a month ago. America is blowing propaganda at China. China is an awesome place to live, work and even retire. Those that are saying otherwise are assuming that 99.9% of American people will never go to China. If America wants to fight for civil rights, start by freeing the working class keeping up the bums taking a monthly check in the USA.
I wonder what's your nationality TODAY.
As I know, most CCP officials have passport ready and send their kids oversea. Why?
k-bye
Well stated, Patrick M. Just ignore this uneducated lemming CCP is Evil. He's obviously a right-wing fanatic! All this right-wing, anti-Chinese bla-bla-bla is getting old fast!
All the killings are done by legal and illegal Mexicans. We would not have as near the crime if we locked up all the Mexicans.
Fareed ignore the part about US killings in Afganistan, Iraq as well as torture in Guantanamo base. Are those human rights issues in your standard?
I am proud of the fact that we control 35-50% of civilian owned guns. I feel this is more of an indictment of the oppressive governments around the world than of our culture. Look at Syria for an example of why "the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is as much to protect us from the state as it is to the defense of the state, read the words of the Founders if you do believe this to be fact. FAR more disarmed people have been slaughtered by their governments, with guns, than have been by armed free people. I fail to see how any anti-gun activists can be a student of history and maintain their stance (Warsaw, China & Russia's communist revolutions, Cuba, Libya?). One of the first steps of oppression and enslavement is to disarm the people, followed by silencing decent. The first amendment is the mouth of the people, the second are our teeth. This very report touches on that, why do think the Chinese government is so confident in it's ability to censor and control their society. Why should any people trust a government that does not trust them with arms. There is reason there is no "Occupy Beijing" movement, they tried that once, remember that outcome?
China continues to grow and prosper, the US stagnates or declines. What can you do?
I love Chinese keep on improving his life and human right and recover its culture roots. Americans, each of us, should pass every bitter experience to the next generation. It's the spiritual duty, you may not understand
The most important aspect of all this is that its so called allies have kicked India to the curb after using it to do the clean up work in the region. US/NATO is pulling out and taking alongwith it all the american taxpayers money and the business causing ripples in India that will shake its core. I will be very surprised if India survives 2012 as a nation. The collapse is imminent, folks, read my lips...you read it here on this forum.
The Aghori or Aghouri is a Hindu cult that is considered to have split off from the Kapalika order in the fourteenth century AD. They have cannibalistic rituals. The streets of northern Indian cities are littered with followers of this cult carrying a kapala, which is a cup made from a skull! These bizarre people will eat anything from rotten food to animal faeces. In order to achieve the highest citadel of enlightenment, the Aghori will perform horrendously crude rituals. The finality of their rituals is attained from eating the decaying flesh of a human.
CCP has killed hundreds educated college Chinese at Tianma square less than 30 years ago. Their parents do not even know where their body is. I wish CCP can build cup made from their skuls, Can CCP do it?
I certainly do not condone any of China's human rights violations, whatever they are, but we should work on our own problems and stop sticking our nose in the problems of other countries. We also should stop buying political favor by giving money to other countries unless it's for disaster relief.
Really loved reading the U.S. report on Cuba. Gotta hand it to Cuba's leaders for keeping control of their country by themselves (not to mention the free education and universal health care). I mean, the dictators who violently ruled all other Caribbean countries over the past century at least had help from the CIA...
When Americans start moving to China and trying to attend Chinese universities then you can get back to me.
... in noteworthy numbers.
This is just another pi$$ing contest.
China isn't telling us anything we don't already know. Do Chinese hear anything close to the full story, and do their citizens have any options to do anything about it?
Feel sorry for you. You really can not do this job. Your boss paid you only to trigger the stocks fall? look to right, more tomorrow
Right, go collect your 0.01 Yuan.
The CCP has abused Chinese since 1949. The evil has a way to take over all land from Chinese, get them "disappear" without a trace. The young generation start to wake up and think about their rights. But they need help from outside.
A single political movement can collapse CCP. That'w why the The Evil CCP members get their passport ready.
America would be better off without those christian rednecks and corrupted politicians.
I agree with china. Gays, Muslims, Minorities, OWS, poor students, and taxpayers are all screwed by America.
Are you paid per post or is it a salaried position?
Countries rise and fall and the US' future looks bleak, much worse than even 5 years ago.
Yes, it's true,Ying and yong, goor and evil
The war on drugs is a perfect way to show the flaw in gun control. 21,865 metric tons of illegal drugs cross our border every year and after 40years we have not even made a dent. An AK 47 weighs 8lbs loaded if they change to smuggling guns that would be over 6,000,000 loaded AK47's every year. Now who wants to tell me that the bad guys won't have guns? Murder is against the law it has not stoped people from shoting each other. 30,000 people have been burn, hanged, chainsawed and even boiled alive in Mexico in the last 5 years Should they ban fire, rope, chainsaws and water.We bult a lot of houses be for we had nail guns, and we murdered alot more people before we had guns
with 5% of the world's population, we own between 35% and 50% of its civilian-owned guns.That's crazy and should make us all pause."
I agree wholeheartedly. Let's pause and think, people; how are we going to get that number up to 75% where it belongs??
China at the most could criticize Russia, Cuba, North Korean, Iran etc.
Cuba is a lovely country. And it is has universal health care. Kinda sad that they treat poor people with more respect...
Fidel Castro asked for the support of the poor people for the Revolution, but then once Fidel had the power he turned and deprived the people of their most basic right. FREEDOM.
Socialisms is the legal means to infiltrate a Democratic system and turn it into a tyrant communist dictatorship.
Nice to see all Liberals rushing to take the same position as a Communist state. After the Liberals take away all the guns, they can start a Chinese style forced abortion program.
Why don't we just send them all to China? Two fer
If you could take guns away from crimal's why not do that now? Answer if you and a lot to take away guns only the those who follow the law would turn them in. LETS BAN DRUGS! so there will be no more drugs right? A kid will high school shop class can go and buy 2000 dollars in tools and make sten sub machine guns all day long at about 45 bucks a pop. How long before gang bangs pay machinists to turn out gun in their garge?We are Americans you can't are not a words we respect. For good or evil.
yep. americans are protecting themselves. very fear filled group they are. makes them very dangerous. like feral cats.
LOL at China talking about the gap between the rich and poor. How much do Chinese factory workers get paid again, was it 30 dollars an hour, or 30 dollars a month?
Meanwhile in the "Communist Party of China", politicians drive Ferraris and live in mansions.
I love Fareed's analysis on this, Everything we write is a "real" human rights violation, but what they call a human right is not one. I guess we won't be making this guy an ambassador any time soon.
We're right you're wrong, what???? How come we ain't getting along.
Yeah he threw a bone that we should "look" at what they say, but our "sins" aren't as bad as theirs. They don't let people surf the internet (human rights violation), we just lock them all in prison (not a human rights violation – they deserve it). OK maybe it isn't by OUR definition, but I can certainly see how someone else might think that.
This guy is great...
Why don't we end interference in China's internal affairs? This would improve our relations markedly.
we can not now, since the American company has joined the CCP to slave Chinese now
Last thought, Rome fell apart and all the accoutrements of civil life where destroyed, yet weapons tech continued to improve. We forgot how to make concrete for 1300 years but not how to make a proper blade for a second. We are general at our best when we are at our worst.
Hitler said FDR was Jewish. Any point in a credible news agency repeating that?
So you do not think having access to health care is a human right? Ask the 50+million USA citizens with their face press to the glass window looking in and wanting medical help but can not afford it.
My computer kept freezing up when trying to read the report on the Chinese consulate's website.
It is quite ironic that China is criticizing the US. It does have a point though. But it is mostly societal problems that virtually every country has, more or less.
-on the GUN CONTROL issue. Get a clue folks. This is no longer the Mayflower Paul Revere stuff so the so called Right To Bear Arm argument is moot!
-And YES, GUNS KILL and PEOPLE USE GUNS TO KILL!
-And Access to Healthcare is A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE! Wake up people!
FUNNY! If SS had been PRIVATIZED under BUSH, all of you TEA PARTIERS retirees would be out in the street! GET A CLUE and read WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS-HOW THE CONSERVATIVES WON THE HEARTS OF AMERICA BY THOMAS FRANK!
Fahreed you are a horrible anti american journalist and i hope you burn in hell
You are just a sheep that thank everything the US does is the greatest and have no idea anything that the US has and is doing!
You are just a sheep that think everything the US does is the greatest and have no idea anything that the US has and is doing!
Did you miss the last lines:
"No, of course not. The report is banned in China, and any website that would dare to publish it would be censored and punished. Now that is an abridgment of freedom of expression — and an example of what a human rights violation looks like."
Mr. Zakaria's final statement is to the point.
And to underscore the irony of this report from China – the content reprinted here from their report looks as if it's been cut and pasted from American studies and articles. Is there anything here that we have not already published about ourselves?
Perhaps we should add to their list: And they "borrowed" our copyrighted material...again.
I think he is actually a fine example of balanced press that others should try... and I am a VFW member.
Wow you people are just incredibly stupid.
Very intelligent comment... anything more salient to add?
It is sad to read most of the comments in this thread. Aside from a few balanced heads, most people here are so out of touch with reality in China. Most comments regarding China and the Chinese political system are only true 30 years ago. It has changed a great deal in the last 30 years. People can now enjoy free speech that has never been seen in its 5000 year history. You actually can say whatever you want to say about the government in public and online. The only thing you cannot do is to try to organize a movement against the government. This is a great step forward towards democracy. I foresee that the Chinese people will enjoy more freedom and democracy with the next government. For those of you who still think that China is in dark ages, I encourage you to visit China and see for yourself. Do not read the government and the media reports. The government and the media have their own agenda, and they are happy to greatly exaggerate the dark side of China so they can make you feel good.
Surprise! The USA is not a democracy... it is a Republic (for which it stands). We use only a semi-democratic process. Our leaders, like Hillary, should stop promoting non-existent American 'democracy'. Zakaria dd a great narrative.
Personally I will not go to China till the Mao's body is "disappeared".
For anyone who will visit BeiJing, make sure that you buy a Kichen knief and see what will happen and make sure that you know all the tourist spots are controlled/own by CCP, i.e. All your money goes to the evil's pocket
I am Chinese, but left China 22 years ago. CCP did many evil things in the past, to my family and many its citizens. My family was rich and our wealth was "redistributed" after 1949. I have more reasons than you to hate CCP. But from a historic perspective, China right now has unprecedented prosperity and its people enjoys unprecedented freedom of speech. And there is even a hint of democracy in its political system as well. If you make "parallel" comparisons with western countries, China has a long way to go in terms of liberty and democracy. But I am in a position to make "longitudinal" comparisons – to the past. To me, it is simply incredible that what people can say about the CCP and its leaders in public forums right now. They can freely criticize, curse, and complain about what they dislike about the government, without any repercussion (as long as they do not try to organize a collective action against the government). They would have been arrested and put in jail 30 years ago if they dare to say what they can say now in public. Some known CCP and governmental critics even enjoy celebrity status and still hold their officially appointed positions. One of them actually was recently promoted to become a president of a government run university. A good friend of mine maintains a twitter-like "micro-blog" and he vents on everything he dislike about the CCP and the government on his "micro-blog", and he has never been bothered until a few weeks ago, when he tried to "organize" a strike for some policies that he disliked. He was soon taken away by the authority for questioning. To our and his amazement, he returned in one hour and was able to blog his experience with the authority online. They treated him kindly and asked him to stop calling for strike because it may disturb the "harmony" of the social order. If this was in the past, he would stay in jail for a long long time. Until today, he is still publishing his micro-blog, and is in the process for promotion from department chair to associate dean of a medical school. To us who have lived through the cultural revolution, this is simply unbelievable. But it is happening. I am very hopeful that China is on its way, though very slowly, to a more democratic system. It has been much much worse in the past 5000 years, and I do not expect that it will be like the west overnight. By the way, I have lived in Europe for 8 years and in US for 15 years. Nowhere in the world has a perfect system and a clean government. There are a lot can be said about the US political system. I am sure that you can freely say anything about the government here. But if you try to organize some movement against the government, there is also a possibility that you will get in trouble with the patriot act, and may be labeled with "terrorism" and "disappear".
I forget to ask you what's your nationality ? Are you sure that you won't be " disappered" one day from China?
See my reply above, and go visit China.
I forgot to ask your nationality too. Are you an American made kwok zucking kwok zucker? I am just curious.
The Chinese rebuttal makes some great points about the level of imprisonment, gun violence, health insurance and minority disparity in our (only) two party system.
Everyone over 21 should carry...provided they have a license to , much like driving a vehicle. How many willfully drive headlong into oncoming traffic , it happens , but not very often. And when it does it's a suicide attempt , not an attempted murder.
Ok Bubba... I'll go out and get a hog leg and a smoke pole tomorrow.
I hate to bust your bubble about any safety guns bring to the common citizen. Look at most European countries that ban gun ownership. Their murder rates are one fifth that of the USA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#2000s
Unfortunately guns are mostly used to hurt friends and relatives not thugs. Thugs do not warn you that they are coming, or give you a chance to go get your gun.
The Peoples Republic of CNN makes reasonable (but not so "PC") comments disappear!!!!!!! This is a junk site.
fuk china to hale
Please Goober, do cut that filthy Tea Party lingo out. It has no place here!
Why don't you phuck yourself first by stuffing your azz with a Chinese made dudo?
Sometimes it reads as though Fareed is trying to become some kind of"political guidance system" for the United States of America. That, he should not be. He should be a little more careful with his suggestions and ideas. He is liable to find himself in water so deep, he will not be able to navigate the depth of the water.
Maybe China should think about its rampant (and often fatal) levels of pollution, its severe political repression, the exploitation of its workers in sweatshops, Communist Party corruption, and its substandard products before attacking the U.S.
Here again is another right-wing, anti-Chinese fanatic. Who said anything about the Chinese attacking us? I only see all these right-wing nutjobs lambasting China. By the way, why don't any of these nutjobs talk about what we're doing in Afghanistan and Pakistan with those ungodly drones and Apache helicoptors of ours? Enough is enough!
the world must understand that america is the greatest country ever and has the right to critisize,arrest ,torture and/or kill anyone.
One way the west has abused human rights is to move our companies to China to exploit their cheap and slave labor, at times with a blind eye to whether they are children, and what kind of appalling conditions they're in. Many wealthy American corporations are A-Okay with that, as long as it makes for a nice, fat bottom line to line the pockets of CEO's... with a wink and slap on the back from their minions in DC.
Another way the west abuses human rights is to allow our companies to profit by selling high-tech surveillance systems to China, that are turned around and used on the people.
They must have used those equipment to secretly video you kwok zucking in some dark corners I suppose.
Another way the west violates human rights is to fly over sovereign countries with remote control assassin-drones, call anyone of a certain age and characteristic a militant, and wipe out their family without any due process of law to determine whether there is any evidence that they've done anything to justify that. Can you imagine another state trying that in your country?
It is an absolute violation of human rights, for the richest nation in the history of the world, that spends trillions on war, trillions on bailouts for the wealthy, that uses a bottomless pit of public money to finance research that benefits private companies and CEOs flying around in corporate jets, that spends obscene amounts of money on political campaigns, to allow countless tens of thousands of families, children, and mentally ill human beings to suffer the indignity of not having even basic shelter... and then have cities that restrict people from giving them food.
said so perfectly
It's a violation of human rights, to hold indefinitely without trial, and torture captives, or skirt the laws by sending them to foreign countries where they can abuse them. The torture at Abu Ghraib prison was a violation of human rights. Just some observations. All states are violent. All states are imperfect.
And what about the human rights of the badly called "native Americans"? Error #1, why call them Native Americans? This is a violation of their right to self determine the way they wish to be called. What about violation their right to posses the land it was taken from them with violence? Why the US government continuously does ignore this fact? Hypocrites criticizing other countries when they are worse than the others...
What are the common wishes of many debtors? They wish their bankers running out of business or becoming criminals. If China can be proven as an evil country, we American don't have to pay back the money we owe them anymore.
Just returned from Beijing today. Interestingly enough, the article was blocked at my hotel in Beijing. CNN would come up but "the internet" would not pull up on this story until I got back to the US
Mr. Zakaria, I did read a fairly detail State Dept's report on human rights from a news net right here in China.
In America they don't publish anything about Jews or Israel that is critical. Total control of the media by 2 percent of the population is not freedom either
Dear Fareed,
I could not help but notice some omissions in your article.
Why did you not mention the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)? Surely this is the last nail in the coffin of 'freedom' in America.
What about SOPA, PIPA and ACTA? Have you not heard about these?
Please know I am only interested in educated critique so expect nothing less from me either; that said I truly wonder if your article was one written with a well-informed and educated background, or another propaganda piece written for CNN.
Not long ago it came out in The Independent (UK) that CNN has lost much of its viewership to alternative media outlets such as infowars. I can't help but wonder if that perhaps may have something to do with CNN refusing to report on issues that really matter. The comments in that article (especially the first few) don't lie. People are becoming aware of what is really going on and are no longer afraid to say something about it. And neither am I. Although my name will probably be included now on some list kept by some 3-letter agency somewhere.
Speaking of lists, I also didn't read in this article the fact that 1,000,000 (that's one million) Americans are on the no-fly list, not to mention the countless of foreigners outside the US. Why do you think this is? Could they be critical of the government too?
I really encourage you to start telling the truth, or otherwise stop omitting the truth. Then again, you might end up like Lou Dobbs did. Then yet again, at least he had the courage to do so, and live by his principles.
Thank you.
Dont worry, there will be more shameful war crimes depicted in media freely AKA vietnam napalm, iraq and afghanistan civilian bombing shooting etc, all on video, what coincidence???? (why are the agencies suddenly so passive?) and statistics that would add to America's guilt up to the point that the right to arms is gone and USA is open to foreign attack.
And you will never hear anything about China and Russia's abominable crimes – mass executions, prosecution of dissidents and liberals, simply because they leave no witnesses....
So, as a guy from a former communist nation I want to say this to the liberals : fight bigotry, fight prejudice, fight excessive state policies, but never fight your countrymen's right to defend themselves. The likes of you are being tortured in the same dungeons stalin and mao used 60 years ago right now... You should realise that China and Russia have absolutely no interest in world peace. They are just licking their wounds from WW2, but beneath the surface they are arming up like crazy.. Today may be the 1939 of the 21 century
You have no idea about what true oppression is. The Soviets were really perceived as demons from hell and literally every occupied country that fought Hitler in WW2 has resisted the Red Army the same. I will curse Soviet Russia to the end of my life for the suffering and depravity it left in my country.
The USA should speak softly with the big stick of times will come when the "war-mongering rednecks" as you label them today wil become "true patriots and heros"...
The day they tell the American Jews, if you want any more wars for Israel, you can send your sons and daughters and not the American people and spend your own money and not bankrupt the U.S, we will hear no more talk of war.
You have to be a fool to not realist that it is in the Zionist interest to make out that the enemies are common, to hide the truth that it is their occupation, land theft and apartheid which is the real problem and which they want to hide with hackneyed use of "anti-semitic" or " they just hate us" labels. How many Americans would tolerate their homes being forcefully occupied by foreigners from Europe . These Jews are no relation to the Jews who lived in Palestine 3000 years ago.
Civil rights in a Communist Country ! Ummm...don't think so.
So Fareed, what did the Indian report say?
"All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must control all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to control the party."
- Mao Zedong
"Americans have the right and advantage of being
armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose
governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
- James Madison
So basically Chine said "You're ugly and your mamma don't love ya" but will not allow heir people to read our assessment of their county.
Sissies...
Well that was some nifty keyboard work. Sorry...
A 10 year old killed his neo-Nazi Dad in Texas. Guns keep Americans safe at home.
Remember how this country was created, at the barrel of Italian Columbus' gun. And thank God for that.
In the 70s, Soviet Premiere Leonid Brezhnev ordered the Kremlin to study what it would take to conquer the US. The report concluded that it was possible to knock out and occupy America. However, the Soviets could never hold it. Thousands of militia in the world's most heavily armed civilian population would be impossible to control. The Russians filed the report and any thoughts of an invasion. What do you conclude about the NRA's 2nd Amendment arguments from this?
These guns are used against Americans not against the Russians. The Palestinians have stones and the Jews have guns. And the numbers are out there. So, guns do kill.
So the Chinese rebuttal basically outlines everything the Republican party stands for? Huge wealth gap, high prison rates, low education spending, and guns on guns on guns?
China has absolutely no right whatsoever to criticize the US or anyone else about human rights abuses, given China's abysmal and horrific record on human rights abuses.
Your point is well taken but it seems to me that China is responding to the made accusations made against it. We may not agree with it but China has a right to rebut.
Now, on a related matter why are we so quiet on the human rights abuses and genocide going in Indian Occupied Kashmir where hundreds of thousands of women and children have been massacred by Indian army? Shall we call it hypocrisy, political convenience (Connivance) or plain double standards? Let's not kid ourselves.
How many thousands of innocent people did Chinese authorities kill in 1989, for daring to protest?
T-i-a-n-a-n-m-e-n S-q-u-a-r-e
George Orwell"s classic book, 1984, was clearly written about the horrific abuses of countries like China.
The horror!
Please, ban all the guns. I dare you.
This government cannot sto the flow of illegal drugs coming into this country. It could not stop the flow of illegal booze either. What, I ask, has/had sprung up around these two fiascos? A thriving criminal enterprise.
The criminals will so love a ban. Go for it, dummies.
China criticising the U.S. on America' human rights record? That's rich coming from one of the most repressive and brutal regimes in the world.
Yes, the U.S. has some serious problems, especially gun violence, but as Fareed correctly points out in the article, that's hardly a human rights issue. Now will the Obama administration have the backbone to issue a rebuttal to China's ridiculous charges? Probably not. And that's sad. Instead of someone who shrinks from the task and shrugs his shoulsders, we need a leader who is going to stand up to China and stand for the U.S. internationally.
^ Prime example of arrogant, ignorant American who thinks the US =World
REALITY CHECK, The US can only represent the US... and the country's human rights track record isn't clean either, another prime example, the Middle East that America's destroying with their fake WMDs.
Thank you, SoWhat. You pretty much said it all unlike all these China-bashing, uneducated lemmings here. By displaying or better said vomiting their ignorance so callously here, one would think that they themselves were Tea Partiers!
Fareed,
you guys at CNN are not fooling anyone. Even Michael Holmes, who is Australian, will not TOUCH the story that all federal members in both houses of parliament in Australia have been denounced as criminals and we are in the process of forming the Peoples Court of Australia to put them all on trial and remove them. Not even Julian Assange will touch that story.
Or how about the story that the entire membership of the IRISH parliament have also been denounced as criminals and the government as not legitimate and we are establishing the Peoples Courts of Ireland to put them all on trial. How about you guys at CNN mention a few of the REAL stories going on, eh?
Just ask any father of divorce about human rights violations. The US is the WORST human rights violator in the world of the largest group in the US called "divorced fathers". The US guvment is criminal in this area and this has been well proven. Just like the Australian, Irish, UK, Canadian guvments.
China is the laughing stalk of the world when it comes to human rights. It would mean something coming from anyone else.
Almost the Chinese newspapers published the American Human right report on China, all using a critical tone of course. It is a pity that American journalists are facing the language challenge when reporting about China, because they do not know Chinese language at all.
Funny thing, no matter how much control and restriction you have, the criminals will still have guns. Why? THEY ARE CRIMINALS! They do not care if it is illegal. Several have said the second ammendment applied only to militias- read it again! It guarantees citizens the right to keep and bear arms- it is very clear. That is why it has stood the test of time and liberal assault over and over. I do not push my beliefs on you, own a gun, don't own a gun. I do not care. But I can assure you, I am the one you want to be close when the bad guy throws down on you. I will protect you as if my life depended on it, because it might. Don't be scared of the citizen who legally carries his weapon, be afraid of those who are bent on causing harm. Mistakes will always be made, and that is tragic, but the right to keep and bear arms protects from an overzealous government as much as a crazy thug! GOD BLESS THE USA, and GOD BLESS THE RIGHTS WE ARE GIVEN TO SPEAK OUR MIND! Thank you!
well, the streets of china are far safer than ours.
We, the US, should focus more of our attention on our own problems and listen carefully when other countries have a problem with our behavior.
As far as the US rate of incarceration, some might make the case for China having a higher rate i.e. the entire country is effectively a prison as far as treatment of the "inmates".
What China is trying to say is....clean your own home before criticizing others.
Let's understand that China has been in business for millenia, whereas the US is roughly 240. So they have had a much longer time to get it right, or make an attempt to do so. We have our problems but the US is like a baby in the timeline of history. Also there are 1.7 billion Chinese we got about 350 million. The numbers just don't make sense in doing per capita comparisons.
what are human rights human rights are the rights that humans have what does that mean in this country the united states of america what that means in this country the united states of america are human freedoms so what does human freedoms mean human freedoms means the freedoms that humans have to do what to do whatever what is whatever whatever is whatever in other words anything so can people in the united states of america do anything just about is that a good thing no do americans have too much freedom yes amen
We critique China's human rights and then China critiques our human rights. This is not right. Doesn't China realize we are superior to them? We critique not only China's human rights but the rest of the world's as well. There seems to be some countries that do not recogize our superiority.
is the freedom of speech a good thing yes the freedom of speech is a good thing is there anything better than the freedom of speech yes there is something better than the freedom of speech what is it it is the responsibility of speech what is the responsibility of speech the responsibility of speech is that i am responsible for what i say is there anything better than that yes there is something better than that what is it it is the accountability of speech what is the accountability of speech the accountability of speech is that i am accountable of what i say to who to jesus on judgment day wake-up america wake-up you need to impose stricter rules on what people can say why do you need to impose stricter rules on what people can say you need to impose stricter rules on what people can say because people will need to give an account of each and every single little word that they say on judgment day do the people of the united states of america a favor and impose stricter rules on what people can say thank you and god bless you amen
i am sorry i made a mistake in the comment above please read the comment below instead thank you and god bless you amen
is the freedom of speech a good thing yes the freedom of speech is a good thing is there anything better than the freedom of speech yes there is something better than the freedom of speech what is it it is the responsibility of speech what is the responsibility of speech the responsibility of speech is that i am responsible for what i say is there anything better than that yes there is something better than that what is it it is the accountability of speech what is the accountability of speech the accountability of speech is that i am accountable for what i say to who to jesus on judgment day wake-up america wake-up you need to impose stricter rules on what people can say why do you need to impose stricter rules on what people can say you need to impose stricter rules on what people can say because people will need to give an account for each and every single little word that they say on judgment day do the people of the united states of america a favor and impose stricter rules on what people can say thank you and god bless you amen
things you won't hear from Obama:
1. How do you like they way I closed down Gitmo?
2. How do you like the way I snuffed out the evil Patriot Act?
3. How do you like the way I tried those terrorists in our Court system?
4. How do you like my new ethics and transparency?
5. How do you like all the Jobs I created?
6. How do you like the way I brought the deficit down in 3 years?
7. How do you like the way I helped the poor and elderly by keeping the gas prices down and the dollar strong so they don't have to as much for gas and everything else they have to buy with the dollar like Food?
8. How do like the way I lowered health care premiums so far? And How do you like your future new insurance agents, the IRS?
9. How do you like the way I brought those evil CIA interrogators to justice? Huh?
10. How do like the Obama economy?
Then I tried to vote for someone that could help fix a few of those things, Ron Paul, and the GOP laughed and tossed us a man that's no different from Obama except that he has even richer and more religious backers he'll have to pander to.
Did they just take the Dems talking points and put a new cover on it?
take away guns? why so people can think of more ways to kill, people will kill just because they can, nothing the government no anyone for that matter could stop that
Consider this. The Iraq War was started by a Christian nation against an Islamic nation on the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Since this charged as been proven to be false, that one mistake has turn America into a terrorist nation and a part of the axis of evil. You do realize that killing millions of innocent people of one race or religion is defined as genocide and will make the USA just as wrong as China..
United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) Article 2 defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
So even if the U.S. is found guilty of Genocide what is the U.N. going to do? Nothing. Not a damn thing. The U.S. is the biggest contributer of men, machines and funding. If we kick them out of NY and withdraw our financial support (I don't even know why we even bother) and men and machine we have the most lethal military the world has ever known, I'm not being arrogant but seriously who is going to try to take us on in a conventional/unconventional war? Russia? China? India? Pakistan? I don't think so.
eedom of speech, freedom of the press, and censorship.
"Beijing's report, by contrast, talks about the Occupy Wall Street movement — that its protesters were treated in a "rude and violent" way.
OK, not sure how that's a human rights violation."
Uh. Freedom of assembly? Freedom of speech? The right to a government by, for, and of the people, vs. the oligarchy we currently enjoy? DUH!!!!!
IN TIBET 33 TIBETAN PEOPLE HAVE SELF IMMOLATED IN DIFFERENT AREAS INSIDE CHINA OCCUPIED TIBET RECENTLY, AND IT CONTINUES, PLEASE HELP!!!
Help my foot. Jim Jones did 2000+. That is 1964+ forking lamas to go.
"U.S. Patriot Act and Homeland Security Act both have clauses about monitoring the Internet, giving the government or law enforcement organizations power to monitor and block any Internet content "harmful to national security."
Compare this with the Chinese.
Regardless of which ever nation has the cleanest human rights record, America has a funner time doing it.
People are not aware of the brutality of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) but sometimes I wonder if it would make any difference to them when it comes down to corporate greed. I heard Mitt Romney on TV the other night say that corporations are people. Are these people aware that the cruel CCP has murdered 80 million of its own people since 1949 and has been attempting the genocide of tens of millions of innocent Falun Gong since 1999 by the use of torture, slavery, organ harvesting and murder?
Americans used to cherish such things as human rights and dignity, let us hope that those days will soon return.
This is just my understanding, thank you.
Does anyone expect Fareed to say anything bad about US ? Of course not. He is an Indian in US. How objective can that be ? He is a minority in a country of mainly whites.
Let us hope though with all the faults of America that the Chinese government will see its need to have freedom of speech, freedom of religion and free elections which would only allow them to have the best leaders for their people and also allow the best ideas to prosper their nation and allow the free publishing of the spiritual truth of the HolyBible to its people to give them both hope and inspiration to its people. For more info, HolyBible dot com and fbnradio dot com. Sincerely ;
Not a balance report. As a media, both sides must be given equal voice. CNN looks like being scapegoat of political differences.
the moment they take our guns, they also will find a way to take our freedoms. one of the many reasons the U.S. has never been invaded since the revolution(barrimg the war with mexico:)) is because the enemy would have to fight an entire nation armed to the teeth. does the us need to look at some of the other petty laws it has in areas other than gun control? yes!! we are slowly becoming a lumbering behemoth of a bearocracy. should we have invaded other countries? no!! let's let them shoot each other then go in and clean up and take over. these people don't pay taxes, so why should we defend them? all they do is cry until we rescue them, then cry because we don't leave. frack'em, let them save themselves for once!! we did it the hard way, let them learn to toil in the same manner.
Fareed: you obviously don't know what's happening to many activists, protesters (e.g. OWS, anti-war, pro-Palestinian rights, etc.), in a country, the US, where respect for human rights and political freedoms is the "envy" of the world...
stop being a lapdog barker for the MSM.. you're a disgrace and incompetent journalist...
There are roughly around 280 million firearms in the U.S. right now owned by law abiding citizens. How many of those guns have been used in crimes? I would say a very minute number, we are all human after all and some may chose to use it to harm others out of anger or because of a change in mental state BUT the point is that it is very rare. When a thief comes creeping in the night I hope that gun control advocates can use their "wit" to defend their families. I on the other hand will exercise my 2nd Amendment right and reach for my .45acp handgun thank you very much.
What i know is just the CNN had hideden the part of the report. .. democracy? It's just a joke for some people . May be the biggest different between China and the U.S is that the chinese people know the media want to brainwash for them, but the U.S people don't even konw they are brainwashing by the government....it's to easy to control the popular will in the u.s
How so very true that is, loemg. Yes, the right-wing news media has been only too successful at brainwashing the majority of the American people and that bides very ill for this country's future!
I want to believe you, but the boss that gave me a bad time was one of China's technological achievements, having started out as a blacksmith (yeah, the old-timey kind that pour and meld steel with hammers). Apparently, he did well enough on a test that he was given a bachelors degree education and sent to a graduate school program in the USA, receiving a PhD in Chemistry. Now he co-owns a tech company that admittedly makes most of its income with government grants and subsidized military products, but nevertheless ... the Chinese are investing in dominating the future of the US. I've seen it up close. It is not pretty.
Just exactly who the H are we Americans to criticize others for their "human rights abuses"? Look at how we torture the political prisoners at Gitmo? As if that's not enough, we put Pvt. Bradley Manning in jail just for doing something decent! Most of all, we keep butchering people in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen with our ungodly drones! Enough already!!!!!
I am the same guy. I am a useless piece of camel dung. I post anti-American, anti GB, anti-Semite, anti-India, anti-modern anything because I am a good Moslem from Pakistan. I have stolen Patrick’s moniker because I am so ashamed of myself and I post the most stupid comments because I am an imbecile. Mohammed the pedophile has taught me well. When people get angry with me, I claim they are the stupid ones. If I am not careful, my brain will explode because it is so full of hate.
In the US you have the right to read the Chinese report, but if you have no internet, you can't access it, and if you can't read, as many poor Americans and immigrants without a decent education can't, you can't read it anyway. Zakaria was totally off base with his dismissive rejection of the Chinese report's findings: Access to education, free healthcare, the right not to be shot by a raving maniac, or not to be incarcerated because you're black or poor, or not to be executed, are not just 'social policy' they ARE human rights, it's just a different way of interpreting it, but just as important to living freely and enjoying life without fear of your liberties of your life being taken from you. There's no use having a right to do something, like 'pursue happiness' when you have no chance to exercise that right, or you're gunned down in a cinema and your life taken from you!
Zakaria's sneering dismissal of China's report was a typical instance of American's self-congratulatory, supercilious sense of superiority that only Americans know true liberty and freedom whne they see it, while everyone else lives in different degrees of slavery and ignorance. It proves once again there's nothing more American than a naturalised immigrant trying to prove himself more American than the Ivy League elitists he aspires to be accepted by.
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Sep 6, 2012
CAIRO (AP) - Human Rights Watch said it has uncovered evidence of a wider use of waterboarding in American interrogations of detainees than has been acknowledged by the United States, in a report Thursday that details further brutal treatment at secret CIA-run prisons under the Bush administration-era U.S. program of detention and rendition of terror suspects.
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