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Chinese News Agency Urges US to Deal With Domestic Human Rights Issues

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China's state news agency Xinhua cited the NSA surveillance program targeting foreign leaders and local citizens and the killings of unarmed African-Americans by white police officers as examples demonstrating that the US has deeply-rooted human rights problems.

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MOSCOW, December 9 (Sputnik) — The United States should deal with its controversial human rights record before criticizing other countries' domestic policy issues, China's state news agency Xinhua said in an editorial Tuesday.

"Perhaps the US government should clean up its own backyard first and respect the rights of other countries to resolve their issues by themselves," the agency said.

The editorial piece lamented that "people rarely hear the US talking about its own problems," but rather see Washington focused on the issues it sees in other countries, including China.

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Xinhua cited the NSA surveillance program targeting foreign leaders and local citizens and the killings of unarmed African-Americans by white police officers as examples demonstrating that the United States has deeply-rooted human rights problems.

According to the news agency, progress on democracy and human rights issues in China was "unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable," as stated in the republic's official 2013 human rights progress report. However, according to the editorial piece, China is not shying away from dialogue and "welcomes friendly advice and suggestions" from other nations, unless they adopt "double standards."

The US would be better suited, concludes the editorial, if it abandoned its "loose" domestic and "strict" foreign policies and stopped "wielding human rights issues as a political tool."

The statement came ahead of the Human Rights Day, which will be marked on Wednesday.

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