CCTV Runs Documentary on U.S. Human Rights Atrocities
The state’s China Central Television (CCTV) produced a 45-minute documentary on U.S. human rights violations, noting that the U.S. “pokes its nose into other countries’ internal affairs while leaving many of its own problems unsolved,” as Xinhua put it.
The violations in the U.S. are real, as opposed to the mostly political complaints made about China. For instance, they report, according to Xinhua, that in 2015
more than 560,000 people across the United States were homeless, 25% of whom were under age; the country’s primary women’s prison Lowell Correctional Institution, where 2,696 convicts are held, is rampant with corruption, torture of prisoners, and sexual abuse; women are subject to sexual harassment and sexual assaults of different forms, and career women subject to discrimination at work…. Of teenagers aged 15 and above who succumb to injuries in the States, one-quarter die in shooting incidents; the Federal Bureau of Investigation forces Internet companies to provide clients’ information without a court approval.
Ji Hong, from the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says in the documentary: “For a very long time, the United States has been quite condescending, with the belief that it has the best system and human rights record, and as a result, it tends to find fault with other countries.”
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