Summary: China's foreign ministry spokesman has recently spoken out against the United States using human rights as a pretext for interfering in China's internal affairs. The outcry came after the release of this year's annual report on human rights around the world. Obviously, China's status was depicted as very poor. But according to Hong, the economy is booming, democracy is on the rise, the law system is improving, cultural development is ever increasing, and most importantly, ethnic groups "enjoy extensive freedoms and rights." He went on to say that the United States should take a look in the mirror and focus on itself instead of preaching human rights to the rest of the world.
Significance: The world has long been fed up with the United States policing the world and it seems that now China is also fed up with us hiding our true intentions. The most recent example of this being Libya where the guise of a humanitarian mission was used to try to obtain a desired result. But we would be wise to heed Hong's advice of looking at ourselves as opposed to interfering in countries that simply do not want our help. I personally think that it's about time someone put us in our place because we have long lost our place as the splendor of the world and it seems that China realizes that. This also poses a dangerous situation where China might get hotheaded themselves and try to more actively challenge our authority. That's a rather unlikely scenario but it's a possibility nontheless.
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