SHANGHAI: A senior Chinese official’s sharp criticism of the United States’ human rights situation has triggered a negative response from the American people toward the US’ human rights and democratic systems, a report based on sentiment analysis by Chinese researchers showed.

Experts said that the criticism made by Yang Jiechi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Foreign Affairs, at the recent Alaska high-level meeting struck a chord among the American public.

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