China rejects US rights report as interference
China and the United States have sparred again over human rights, just days after US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she hoped the ever-prickly issue would not colour relations.
China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday blasted a US State Department report criticising its rights record, calling the claims groundless and accusing Washington of interfering in its internal affairs.
The report issued in Washington on Wednesday accuses China of stepping up cultural and religious repression of minorities in Tibet and elsewhere and increasing the detention and harassment of political dissidents.
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