China's State Council Information Office on Sunday released a report on human rights violations in the US in 2024, revealing that under the collusion of power and capital, human rights have been distorted into mere props in a political "show" and bargaining chips in a power "casino," completely deviating from the core values and fundamental principles of human rights.

Chinese experts noted that flaws in the US' judicial and political systems make the problems exposed in the report hard to resolve, and the report reflects the dismal human rights record of the US, revealing the hypocrisy and absurdity of its self-proclaimed narrative as a "beacon of human rights."

The report is divided into Foreword, American Democracy: Carnival of Money Power Games, Social Welfare: Struggling Low-Incomers, Racism: Shackles of Minorities, Vulnerable, Helplessness of Women and Children, Fatal Journey: Elegy of Undocumented Immigrants, American Hegemony: Terminator of Other Countries' Human Rights, and Conclusion.

The report noted that 2024, as an election year in the US, was a year of special concern that featured aggravating political strife and social division. Such a landscape offers an opportunity to review the state of human rights in the country in an intensive manner.  

Money controls US politics, with partisan interests above voter rights, said the report, noting that the Republican and Democratic parties manipulate electoral districts in highly distorted ways to choose their voters, while meticulously designing voter compositions that favor their own chances of winning.

The report also said that extreme incidents of political violence occurred frequently, with the public deeply disillusioned with American-style democracy, citing as an example that a vast majority of voters believed the US was on the wrong track, and nearly 80 percent said the election had not made them proud of their country.

The report also noted the human rights violations in the US, including skyrocketing inflation that exacerbated the wealth gap and delivered catastrophic blows to low- and middle-income families, government-business collusion that fueled substance abuse and the drug crisis, a failed healthcare system that triggered public anger and gun violence that threatened lives, with police brutality persisting in total disregard for human lives. The death toll from gun violence remained high.

Racist rhetoric runs rampant, with ethnic minorities subjected to persistent and widespread discrimination and exclusion, said the report. By exploiting racial divides, politicians covered up structural problems in society by instigating antagonism between rival groups. The absence of legal protection has led to widespread infringement of women's and children's rights was also highlighted in the report.

The report also mentioned that the humanitarian crisis for migrants in border areas continues to worsen, with migrants subjected to torture and inhumane treatment. Politicians exploit the issue of immigration to attack one another, using stigmatizing narratives to attract attention and win votes. Power politics intensifies regional conflicts and causes humanitarian disasters, per the report.

The report also stressed that the tumultuous political stage of the US in 2024 acts as a prism, reflecting the structural dilemmas of American-style human rights. As for the numerous human rights issues in the US, politicians from both parties equivocated during election campaigns and dodged the question of how to earnestly fix the problems.

Lü Xiang, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Sunday that the US faces deep-rooted human rights challenges that are difficult to resolve, due to flaws in its judicial system and political institutions.

He said that governmental inaction has effectively allowed serious and widespread human rights violations to continue unabated.

"In the past, the US used human rights as a powerful political tool to attack other countries," Lü said. "But today, with its own problems increasingly exposed, its criticisms have lost credibility and only highlight its own shortcomings. This exposes the hypocrisy of the US on human rights."

The US side has attempted to use human rights issue to fabricate a domestic and international political consensus of hostility toward China. In contrast, the primary purpose of the Chinese report is not to weaponize human rights issues, but to present the US and the international community with clear facts that expose the dismal record of human rights in the US, Li Haidong, a professor at the China Foreign Affairs University, told the Global Times. 

It aims to make the US and the international community recognize the hypocrisy and absurdity of the US's self-proclaimed narrative as a "beacon of human rights," while also revealing the double standards of the US elite in assessing their own human rights situation and that of China, Li added.