(BEIJING) - China said the United States is unfit to present itself as a "defender of human rights", denouncing the latest U.S. assessment of Beijing's controls on political and religious life as unfounded distortion.
The U.S. State Department's latest report on human rights across the globe, issued this week, did not include China among the world's worst offenders but said Beijing's record remained "poor".
But with Beijing due to host the Summer Olympic Games starting Aug. 8, drawing increased international attention to China's strict, sometimes harsh controls on citizens, a Chinese official spokesman on Thursday hit back with sarcasm.
"We humbly suggest that the U.S. desist from posing as a 'defender of human rights' and pay more attention to the United States' own human rights record," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement issued by the official Xinhua news agency.
"Stop exercising double standards in human rights issues and wrongly meddling in the internal affairs of other countries."......
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