The “2022 International Religious Freedom Report” the US State Department published recently is faced with strong criticism and denunciation of the international community as it is full of prejudices and distortions.

As in the past, the recent report is consistent with wrong contents about the religious situations in several countries of the world including China, Cuba, Iran, India and Pakistan.

It is critical of the religious and other policies of China in the Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

China resolutely rejected the report.

A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry on May 16 said that China does not admit but is strongly opposed to the report as it lacks actual grounds and distorts China’s ethnic and religious policies.

A professor of the international relations institute of the Diplomatic School of China told The Global Times that the US released the religious freedom report in the run-up to the G7 summit slated to be held in Japan and one of its purposes is to make a fuss about China’s human rights issue continuously so as to remind its allies of it and get them not to forget to make effective use of the “religious and Xinjiang cards”.

Analysts say that the US, in fact, abuses freedom and human rights in expanding its influence and as long as it adheres to competition against China, such anti-China attack would continue.

Cuba, Iran, India and other countries also rejected the US report.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez tweeted on May 22 that at least 4.5 million people were killed by the many wars started by the US in 2001 on the pretext of anti-terrorism, rejecting the US interference in internal affairs of other countries and dominationist policy claiming millions of lives.

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, in an article posted on Twitter account on May 10, said that the US supported the Iranian regimes in the past which were undemocratic and not elected, and aided those who attempted to overthrow the popular government, advising it not to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries but deeply reflect on the systematic human rights abuses against other nations committed at home and seriously accept their free requests.

India said the US report on international religious freedom distorts the facts and branded it as prejudiced and irritating.

Nepal did not agree with the content of the report and submitted a diplomatic memorandum denying the content of the report to the US government through its embassy in Nepal.

Non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries is an important clause of the UN Charter.

Paragraph 7 of Article 2 of the UN Charter says: “Nothing contained in the present charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or…”

The international community strongly protests against the US arbitrariness and interference in internal affairs of other countries which have become ever more undisguised on the pretext of “freedom” and “human rights”. Reality shows that the US strategy for world domination cannot be implemented.

The countries it pointed at in the report are mostly those with different ideas, systems and course of development from the US.

What is clear is that the US foreign policy always creates disorder and instability rather than giving a helping hand to seeking a peaceful solution to the crises across the world. Though the US continues to force its values and opinion on other countries still under the delusion that it is the only superpower in the world, the world is going multipolar today.

The US should realize that the world is not what it was yesterday.

Democracy is the common value of all humanity and there are many ways to put it into reality. The democratic system in a country should be set up by its people to meet the specific conditions of the country.

The US had better not insist on the stereotyped method to dominate the world by the worn-out means of interference in internal affairs of other countries, but remedy its poor human rights situation. This is the shared view of the international community today.