Reconsidering the U.S. Narrative
The U.S. narrative about China and human rights aims to demonize China—also a human rights concern—while distracting others from America’s painful record at home and abroad.
The U.S. narrative about China and human rights aims to demonize China—also a human rights concern—while distracting others from America’s painful record at home and abroad.
During a press conference at the end of her Xinjiang tour, Ms. Bachelet commended China for the country’s alleviation of poverty.
What is freedom worth if there is no guarantee of life or protection? Ultimately, the U.S. is using talk of human rights and its own mythology of exceptionalism as a cover for its agenda of seeking hegemony.
The whole-process people’s democracy has comprehensively and extensively promoted the development of the human rights cause in China.
Although it is a wealthy country, it nonetheless comes on the back of a political system that promotes extreme inequality and social disorder in the name of ‘freedom,’ which in practice upholds the interests of its wealthy elite against the population at large.
Putting the population first and taking its longing for a better life as the goal is the responsibility of all countries.
China will continue expanding and deepening its human rights protection, which is a welcome aspiration.
Accusing China of ‘genocide’ is another means to isolate China and curb the development of China, and to impede the process towards prosperity in Xinjiang.
China protects, according to law, the political, economic, social, and cultural rights of its citizens, especially basic human rights — the rights to subsistence, health, and development.
The fact that more than 90 countries supported China’s stance during the most recent UNHRC session proves that a large part of the international community now recognizes China’s progress in human rights.
The desired goal is to achieve a comprehensive, just and lasting peace on the basis of the “two-state solution” that guarantees the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the basis of 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Washington has crafted its own narrative, one universally accepted by American news organizations that believe they can tell the difference between propaganda and truth.