China's human rights record is quite spectacular. The Chinese Communist Party has lifted a billion people out of poverty since the revolution, while doubling life expectancy from ~35 to nearly 70. Before the revolution, China was an awful feudal backwater with a large population of desperately-poor peasants. The low life expectancy was a reflection of miserable living conditions: poverty, filth, malnourishment, no medical care, no public health infrastructure, illiteracy, etc., etc. After the revolution, dramatic changes were made over a few decades. Public health infrastructure was installed. Free medical care was provided. Malnourishment was wiped out or dramatically curtailed. Illiteracy was nearly wiped out. And so on. Most notably, the Party abolished famine. For 2,000 years, China averaged one devastating famine every year. Since the revolution: ONE famine, 60 years ago, and that one mainly due to extraordinarily bad weather.

Giving billions the chance to live full lives in reasonable health and security, wiping out illiteracy, and abolishing famine... "spectacular" is not too strong a word. I can't imagine another place or time that remotely compares. The U.S.? Not even close. In fact, the U.S. is going the other direction rapidly, with poverty and precarity on a steep rise, suicide becoming epidemic, and so on. (And yes, those things reflect human rights: the right to live in decent security, free from poverty, and free from such dreadful conditions as to cause one to contemplate, or commit, suicide.)

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in case you missed it:

[link to en.people.cn]
China issues report on U.S. human rights
April 25, 2018
snip
"A chronology of human rights violations by the United States in 2017 was released by the office Tuesday. China's report said the United States posed once again as "the guardian of human rights" and a self-styled "human rights judge" while its own human rights record remained tarnished and showed continued deterioration. The report accused the United States of serious infringement on citizens' civil rights, systematic racial discrimination, severe flaws in American-style democracy, widening rich-poor divide, and discrimination and assault against some specific groups such as women, children and people with disabilities, as well as its continued violations of human rights in other countries."

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BTW, I note that the U.S. has this very strange penchant for throwing masses of its people into prison, unlike China:

prison population:
U.S. 2,217,000 = 1.46% of total pop (of 325 million)
China 1,649,000 = 0.12% of total pop (of 1.38 billion)

What's that again about "human rights"?