The Macau government said in a statement yesterday that it “firmly repudiates and opposes” the “tendentious comments and political prejudice” in the US Department’s “2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” – aka “2020 Human Rights Report” – about the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR).
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken released the report in Washington, DC, on Tuesday.
The local government said that it issued the statement in response to media enquiries about its reaction to the US report
The government described the US report as “intentionally turning facts upside down, ignoring reality and being full of tendentious comments and political prejudice,” adding that “therefore the MSAR expresses its firm repudiation and opposition”.
The statement said that since Macau’s return to the motherland in 1999, the “One Country, Two Systems” principle has been successfully implemented in the MSAR, adding that the national Constitution and local Basic Law grant local citizens a wide range of rights and freedoms “in an unprecedented way”.
The statement underlined that the United States is beset with “serious human rights problems” because of which it had better refrain from making “irresponsible comments and unfounded accusations”.
In the statement, the government urges the United States to “forsake its cold war mentality and ideological prejudice and stop interfering in Macau affairs and the internal affairs of China”.
