[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Dong-hoon] China criticized the United States, which has been criticizing China's human rights issues, by comparing it to the "world champion of gun incidents."
Zhao Lijian, spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a regular briefing on the 16th, "The United States is the world champion with a continuously high rate of gun-related crimes," adding, "But this is just the tip of the iceberg compared to the human rights issues existing in the U.S."
He mentioned serious human rights violations in the U.S., such as racism, police violence, and forced labor, referring to George Floyd, a Black man who died from neck compression during an arrest by police.
This counterattack came as U.S. President Joe Biden recently met consecutively with leaders of the Group of Seven (G7), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the European Union (EU), raising human rights issues in Xinjiang and Hong Kong to check China.
Spokesperson Zhao said, "The United States not only ignores its own human rights problems but also frequently interferes in other countries' internal affairs under the pretext of human rights," mocking, "The U.S. acts like a doctor while being ill, trying to prescribe medicine to others, but if it hides its illness and does not treat it, eventually there will be no way to save itself."
He particularly asserted, "Some American politicians should clean their own house before interfering in other countries' internal affairs in the name of human rights."
Earlier, the Washington Post (WP) reported on the 14th (local time), citing statistics from the U.S. nonprofit organization Gun Violence Archive (GVA), that an average of 54 people die daily from gun incidents in the United States this year.
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