State Dept. Drops China from Rights Violators' List

I just finished reading the following paragraph and almost fell off my chair.

The U.S. State Department recently removed China from its list of the world's worst human-rights violators. No reason was given for the removal, although the State      Department said last year that China's overall human-rights record remained poor.

Okay...so why the removal then?  If China's overall human-rights record remained poor, and anyone who reads this blog knows it does, then why in the world would the United States State Department remove China from it's list of the world's worst human-rights violators?

Meanwhile, in an article by the Associated Press, China is attacking the United States for our US rights record saying,

China's State Council, or cabinet, said the U.S. record on human rights was "tattered and shocking" and criticized America for its violent crimes, large prison population and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"The invasion of Iraq by U.S. troops has produced the biggest human rights tragedy and the greatest humanitarian disaster in the modern world," the council said in its report.

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