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China has accused the United States of causing humanitarian disasters with its “aggressive wars” and military interventions as it continues to hit back at attacks on its human rights record. On Friday a report issued by the China Society for Human Rights Studies – a group controlled by the State Council Information Office, the body responsible for external propaganda – criticised America’s “humanitarian interventions” and claimed the US was responsible for 80 per cent of armed conflicts between 1945 and 2001. “The majority of the aggressive wars were launched by the US unilaterally. They resulted in mass casualties and destruction...