China blasts human rights report, praises current situation

China has blasted a report from Human Rights Watch that accused it of constructing a surveillance state at home while seeking to silence critics abroad.

Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang on Wednesday said he had not read the report but that such documents routinely turned a blind eye on facts and confused right and wrong with no objectivity at all."
On Tuesday, the head of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, accused China of carrying out the most intense attack on the global system for enforcing human rights since that system began to emerge in the mid-20th century."