Comment on "Long road to human rights in the US" (China Daily, May 17)

The important idea that the US needs to understand is that no country has a right to intervene in the internal affairs of other countries. The US should adopt as a model China's policy of non-intervention in foreign affairs.

It is unwise for the US to preach about human rights when it intervenes into and occupies countries like Iraq and Afghanistan with the excuse of fighting a war on terror against less than 2,000 Al Qaida terrorists. There are few human rights in countries that are occupied by America or by countries that receive American foreign "aid".

China's human rights record is positive when compared to the countries that are occupied by US or by governments that it supports. In any case the US and other countries have absolutely no rights to criticize or interfere in China's or any other country's internal affairs. The right for people to decide what happens in their countries without foreign interference is real human right.

Roman Gil on China Daily website.

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