China blasts US 'evil past of genocide' at UN Human Rights Council

China on Wednesday blasted the United States' human rights record, citing what it called US failures against Covid-19 that cost “hundreds of thousands of lives,” as well as racial discrimination, police brutality, and an “evil past of genocide.”

China on Wednesday blasted the United States' human rights record, citing what it called US failures against Covid-19 that cost “hundreds of thousands of lives,” as well as racial discrimination, police brutality, and an “evil past of genocide.” Jiang Duan, a counsellor at the Chinese mission in Geneva, voiced the criticism at the end of an examination of the US rights record at the Human Rights Council, part of a regular review faced by all countries at the United Nations' top human rights body. The comments testified to the growing outspokenness of Chinese diplomats, and the swelling rivalry between the world’s top two economic powers. The US has repeatedly criticized China’s rights record on issues like the rights of protesters in Hong Kong and the detention of Muslim Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region.