China Attacks U.S. on Human Rights

China has attacked the United States' human rights record as "tattered and shocking", describing its election process as "hypocritical democracy" and naming the US invasion of Iraq as the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy.

In what has become an annual piece of tit-for-tat diplomatic wrangling, the US State Department issues a human rights report in which China always scores badly. A couple of days later, Beijing compiles a report on the US human rights record which uses similar language to attack Washington's record.

"[America's] arrogant critique on the human rights of other countries are always accompanied by a deliberate ignoring of serious human rights problems on its own territory," said the Chinese report, released yesterday.