China, human rights watchdog

So China is blasting the United States on human rights.

Think it's a bit hypocritical that a country that executes thousands, employs regular torture, and abridges basically every human freedom should be yapping its trap about human rights?

Problem is, they're mostly right.

China's main indictments of the U.S. are that A) the U.S. is systematically racist, and that B) the U.S. armed forces abuses detainees en masse.

(A), to my knowledge, isn't really fair. The U.S. not only has no institutionalized racism, but has laws actively trying to counteract racism. Although many individuals harbor bigoted attitudes and stereotypes, our society usually doesn't let them reveal those ideas out loud without being ostracized. Contrast this with China, which crushingly represses its Uighur Muslim and Tibetan minorities, quite officially and quite brutally. No, I wouldn't call the U.S. a racist country.

(B), however, is quite true; our military has turned to torture in order (we are told) to fight terrorists. On this issue, the U.S. has lost any moral high ground it may ever have had relative to China.

China could have, but didn't, add:
Illegal domestic spying on American citizens
Unlawful arbitrary detention of citizens
Arresting of protesters
Increasing voter disenfranchisement (and possibly even fraud)

Of course, China griping about these things would make this an even bigger case of the pot calling the kettle Uighur...