No country is entitled to act as the judge on human rights, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Monday when addressing a high-level segment of the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council via video link.
No country is entitled to act as the judge on human rights, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Monday when addressing a high-level segment of the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council via video link.
I understand why especially foreign ministers would talk fairly conservatively, but I disagree, countries like China and Cuba absolutely have a right to shit on America for their atrocities and despicable lack of care for so called “human rights”. ESPECIALLY Cuba. They’re blockaded, endlessly sabotaged, etc and in just about every area Cuba is ahead of the US. Not even just talking worker’s power and rights but also women, LGBTQ+ families and individuals, disabled people, etc.
For a concrete example of what I’m talking about just look at the We Charge Genocide at the UN in 1951. USSR was absolutely right to cite that as an example of human rights abuses in the US. If the US wants to go around screaming genocide at China, China should go on the rhetorical offensive and stop playing endless defense. While this would probably escalate things, that escalation seems inevitably with the imperial machine that is the US state.