From AP:
China assailed the United States on Monday for listing it as a country that violates religious freedoms. The State Department list released last week included China among Myanmar, North Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan as places where people cannot practice their faiths freely.
“The United States’ action violates the basic rules of international relations, and constitutes a rude intervention in the internal affairs of another country,” Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Jiang Yu said.
…John V. Hanford III, U.S. ambassador for international religious freedom, said China has seen “a little progress” but “certainly has not made the sort of progress that we need to see in a systemic way to remove them” from the list.
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