Talk:Human Rights Record of the United States

See: Talk:China's Human Rights Record of the United States

Concerns about current article state as of this comment

(the following is my opinion, as someone who has worked within the US intelligence complex for counter-espionage and counter-info-ops specifically related to PRC. I am an incrementalist progressive, not a card-carrying member of any party, skeptical of state power in general, and have called out US abuses in smoke-filled rooms at great personal risk, so I'm not some jingoist, shill or partisan hack.)

This article acts as an implementation of PRC's info-ops strategy of whataboutism as a smokescreen for its own abuses, especially in the context of US-targeted sentiment manipulation. The referenced report blends facts with spin and distortion and generates headlines as a faux-credible response to the State report. It's linked from a variety of popular source articles, so it acts as a magnifier of PRC's info-ops campaign when people rabbit-hole into it. Its initial state was pretty neutral, actually.

The report mentioned is naked propaganda. Xinhua is a state-owned propaganda outlet. There is no equivalent in the US, so the western public tends to treat such outlets as similar to the NYT when really it's akin to DPRK's KCNA. There are better sources for a CN-based analysis of the report than blithely copy-pasting its contents, amplifying its propaganda impact.

-- I'll make an edit in an attempt to address this, and am documenting here since inevitably the 50-cent army will show up to revert those edits.

1. Create a header for the Criticism section so it shows up at a glance and is more easily accessible
3. Include add'l credible sources critical of the PRC report w/ as neutral of a viewpoint as possible. CNN should be treated as a moderately US-biased outlet for this purpose. Talking heads are not credible in general.
5. Add a link to the 2013 State dept report, since that's the year the current summary focuses on e.g. https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2013humanrightsreport/
7. (stretch) Add sections for each year's report and a relevant pull quote from each side, along w/ a neutral comparison of the claims. This would be interesting to see the changes in US-China relations over time. e.g. https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/china/

73.202.95.43 (talk) 17:52, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Disambig

• Shouldn't the China's article be here, and an {{otheruses}} disambig be used instead? 132.205.45.110 02:57, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
  • China's article originally was here, but some found that confusing, so it was moved to its current location for clarification. This page was then made into a redirect, but the current use is no less useful. -- BD2412 ^talk 04:03, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Supporters need to be identified

The article says, "Supporters say that just as the USA is free to criticise the PRC, the PRC should also be free to criticise the USA..."
I have no doubt that this document has its supporters but we need to know who they are. The critics need to be on the record now so it's never forgotten where they stood.
-- Randy2063 (talk) 17:26, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

How can the "criticism" section even exist without references?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.146.234.168 (talk) 23:23, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Chinese title?

What is the original Chinese language title of this report? Would help the article. Nesnad (talk) 17:52, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Citation needed clean-up

If the tag is citation needed and it's over a year old, it will be deleted. Now is your chance to find the citation.

Id447 (talk) 21:56, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Position of the U.S. Government and Department of State

I can't find anything in this section that is relevant to this page. How are these statement of no comment help the reader to understand the human rights record of the U.S.? Needs clean-up.

Id447 (talk) 22:28, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

The article isn't supposed to be about the human rights record of the U.S. That's what Human rights in the United States is for.

It's supposed to be about China's human rights report. A lot of the references are about various human rights issues but have no apparent connection to China's report. They either need to be tied to China's report or removed.

-- Randy2063 (talk) 02:43, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

It is interesting that in Human rights in the United States#See_also is 'Criticism of the US Human rights record' followed by a link to this article. The Human rights in the United States shows a different perspective than this article. Perhaps the perspective is a western point of view. An article titled "Human Rights Record of the United States" obviously concerns the human rights of the U.S. regardless of the intentions of the authors. However I will add links to the Chinese report. By the way, thank you for your ultimatum.

Id447 (talk) 03:38, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

When adding material it has to reference the subject of the article, the China Human Rights Report ( the annual publication on the human rights record in the United States of America, published by the Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China). Otherwise the article could run contrary to WP:Syn and WP:coatrack. V7-sport (talk) 04:04, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Please clarify your thoughts and then state them. Please explain why you deleted material which was neither original nor coat rack. Are you opposed to allowing the article to contain a summary of the Chinese Human Rights Report? If so why?

Id447 (talk) 20:22, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Sorry if it was unclear. No, I am not opposed to the article containing a summary of the China Human Rights Report, however that as to be done by secondary reliable sources, not us, the wikipedia editors. In other words, when we quote someone else who is a reliable source summarizing or commenting on the Chinese Human Rights Report, that's OK. When we do it it is considered original research. The material deleted didn't reference the China Human Rights Report at all, which it needs to in order to be included in the article. Otherwise it's WP:OR. V7-sport (talk) 03:23, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Primary sources.

It would be great if we could get some secondary sources that address the China Human Rights Report. As the article stands it relies on primary sources almost exclusively. That runs afoul of Wiki policy. V7-sport (talk) 04:10, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

I Added some. V7-sport (talk) 11:16, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

I added a ton of secondary sources and tertiary sources but they got deleted. Please re-check the definition of these terms.

Id447 (talk) 20:49, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

The sources you added made no reference to the China Human Rights Report, which is the subject of the article.V7-sport (talk) 03:17, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Re Id447 edits.

• RE."This section has been truncated to remove facts that an editor finds uncomfortable."

Please dear friend, assuming good faith is a requirement for editing here. I'm not sure which words are "weasel" as it consists of a quote from a secondary source.

• RE. "At least 15 military interventions have been justified using references to the country's human rights record":
  

That goes back to this link Examples of humanitarian intervention which is to a Wikipedia page and is not considered a reliable source. (WP:RS) further, it doesn't reference the "China Human Rights Report" and most of the examples are not US interventions. (IE. "Russian, British and French Anti-Ottoman Intervention in the Greek War of Independence (1824)"

• RE."The conception and practices of human rights differs in various cultures."
  

The first reference goes back to "List of human rights articles by country" which is a wikipedia page and therefore not a reliable source. It also doesn't say what you are saying it says. it's a list of articles.

The second source is an essay that doesn't mention the China Human Rights Report or even China or the USA.

Is there some way we could make these edits more congruent with Wikipedia policy? V7-sport (talk) 04:11, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

User:Id447, please do not delete comments by other users. bd2412 T 23:24, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Inappropriate Report for 2014

The section on the 2014 report is given MASSIVELY undue weight in comparison to other reports. It is also repeated. The first part of the section is simply repeated in the second part (indented paragraphs). I have no problem with the content, only the huge amount of it, the duplication of that huge amount, and what appears to me to be WP:NPOV problems. I know very little about this subject, and I have very little time for editing these days, so I would appreciate it if someone else who understands WP policies and guidelines as well as having at least a passing knowledge of the subject looks this over. Is the 2014 report so incredibly important that it should make up most of the article? The page can't stand the way it is. Dcs002 (talk) 01:22, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

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There are twenty-three entries in the "External links". Three seems to be an acceptable number and of course, everyone has their favorite to add for four. The problem is that none is needed for article promotion.

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Additional title, further "See also" links and missing links

I'll be suggesting to add the most recent name of the report here, "The Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States" (the title used in reports from 2019), and further links at "See also" to other relevant articles: whataboutism, propaganda in China, anti-American sentiment in China, wolf warrior diplomacy and And you are lynching Negroes. Looks like the only other page linking here is China–United States relations; looking into have links to this article at the China section of whataboutism (particularly relevant). TagaSanPedroAko (talk) 01:37, 19 May 2023 (UTC)