China issues report on U.S. human rights

China published a report on the United States' human rights situation on Thursday.

The report, titled "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2016," was released by the Information Office of the State Council, China's cabinet, in response to "the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016" issued by the U.S. State Department on March 3 local time.

China's report says that the United States poses once again as "the judge of human rights".

"Wielding 'the baton of human rights,' it pointed fingers and cast blame on the human rights situation in many countries while paying no attention to its own terrible human rights problems," it says.

"With the gunshots lingering in people's ears behind the Statue of Liberty, worsening racial discrimination and the election farce dominated by money politics, the self-proclaimed human rights defender has exposed its human rights 'myth' with its own deeds," it added.

Concrete facts show that the United States saw continued deterioration in some key aspects of its existent human rights issues last year, according to the report.

The United States had the second highest prisoner rate, with 693 prisoners per 100,000 of the national population, the report says.

Roughly 2.2 million people were incarcerated in the United States in 2014. And there had been 70 million Americans incarcerated - that's almost one in three adults - with some form of criminal record, the report cites media reports as saying.

Occurrence of gun-related crimes also sustained a high level, according to the report.

There were a total of 58,125 gun violence incidents, including 385 mass shootings, in the United States in 2016, leaving 15,039 killed and 30,589 injured, says the report, citing figures from a toll report by the Gun Violence Archive.

In 2016, the U.S. social polarization became more serious, with the proportion of adults who had full-time jobs hitting a new low since 1983, income gaps continuing to widen, the size of middle class reaching a turning point and beginning to shrink, and living conditions of the lower class deteriorating, the report says.

According to consulting firm Gallup, the percentage of Americans who said they were in the middle or upper-middle class had fallen by 10 percentage points, from an average of 61 percent between 2000 and 2008 to 51 percent in 2016.

"That drop meant 25 million people in the United States fared much worse in economic terms," it says.

Besides, one in seven Americans, or at least 45 million people, lived in poverty, the report quotes the Daily Mail as saying.

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U.S. has world's second highest prisoner rate: China report 

The United States had the second highest prisoner rate, with 693 prisoners per 100,000 of the national population, according to the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2016 released by China on Thursday.

Report criticizes U.S. social polarization

The U.S. social polarization became more serious in 2016, with the proportion of adults who had full-time jobs hitting a new low since 1983, according to a report on U.S. human rights released Thursday.

No guarantees of political rights in U.S.: report

In 2016, money politics and power-for-money deals had controlled the presidential election, which was full of lies and farces, says a report on the U.S. human rights record, issued by the State Council Information Office on Thursday.

Women, children, elders' rights lack protection in U.S.: report

The situation of protection of rights of women, children and elders in the United States was worrisome in 2016, says a report on U.S. human rights released Thursday.

Report exposes U.S. racial discrimination

Racial relations in the United States continued to deteriorate in 2016, according to a report on U.S. human rights released Thursday.

Report exposes U.S. human rights violations in other countries

The United States continued to trample on human rights in other countries, causing tremendous civilian casualties, according to a report on U.S. human rights released Thursday.

Full text: Human Rights Record of the United States in 2016

Full text: Chronology of Human Rights Violations of the United States in 2016