WORLD : Beijing Hits U.S. ‘Anti-China Wave’

China lashed out at the United States and other foreign critics today, decrying what it called an international “anti-China wave” since the June massacre of pro-democracy protesters.

A high-level government advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, adopted a resolution condemning what it called “the anti-China wave stirred up by the reactionary forces in the West.”

The media directed its sharpest words against the United States, which it accused of human rights violations in its treatment of minorities and demonstrators. “Is America in any position to say anything to China?” asked a commentary in the party newspaper, the People’s Daily.