China’s “2020 Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States,” published shortly after the U.S.-China talks in Alaska, is a scathing critique of the runaway U.S. Muscle Lung Epidemic, the political chaos caused by U.S.-style democracy, the deterioration of racial discrimination and the situation of ethnic minorities, the threat to public safety from social unrest, the disparity between rich and poor that exacerbates social injustice, and the humane disaster caused by the violation of international rules. The report is full of sophistry, among which three points are worth discussing.
First, the report criticizes the U.S. government’s “recklessness” in responding to the WBC epidemic, with less than 5 percent of the world’s population but more than 25 percent of the total number of diagnoses and nearly 20 percent of the world’s deaths, killing more than half a million people. On the one hand, Beijing said at the beginning of the epidemic that there was nothing to worry about, which led major Western countries to take it lightly, thinking it was just a more serious flu, and on the other hand, Beijing deliberately hid the power of the virus and the extent of the damage to the country from the World health Organization and other countries. On the other hand, the Beijing government deliberately concealed from the World Health Organization and other countries the strength of the virus and the extent of the damage done at Home.
Second, the report claims that the gap between the rich and poor in the United States is accelerating, that people are suffering, that the epidemic is getting out of hand, that there is massive unemployment, that tens of millions of people are losing their health insurance, and that vulnerable groups are “the biggest casualties of the government’s passive response to the epidemic. However, the disparity between the rich and the poor is a matter of policy rather than a matter of human rights persecution, and these problems exist in all countries, and the poverty gap in China is higher than in most countries in the world. In the process of globalization, the gap between the rich and the poor is already getting worse and worse in all countries, and the epidemic is causing the gap between the rich and the poor to get worse not only in the United States, but also in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and not to mention China.
Last but not least, the most ironic criticism is that minorities in the United States suffer from systematic racial discrimination, with “about 1 in 3 minors under the age of 18” among people of color, but accounting for 2 in 3 of the total number of incarcerated minors; the rate of African-Americans infected with martial lung is three times that of whites, the mortality rate is twice that of whites, and the chance of being killed by police is three times that of whites. The rate of African-Americans contracting martial lung is three times that of whites, the death rate is twice that of whites, and they are three times more likely to be killed by police than whites; and one in four Asian youth are targets of racial bullying. However, discrimination exists in every country, and it is a matter of social inequality rather than deliberate government oppression of the human rights of ethnic minorities.
The report is in fact a play on the issue, and Beijing’s characterization of the scourge of the Vulnerable Pulmonary Virus as a governmental violation of human rights is truly mind-boggling. If these claims hold water, then all countries in the world are violating the human rights of their populations, and China is trying to use this report to deflect criticism of its genocide. The EU has never imposed sanctions on China over human rights issues since the EU ordered an arms embargo on China after the Beijing massacre in 1989, but this Time the EU’s actions have angered China. China criticized the EU’s reckless approach and countered by announcing sanctions against 10 members of the European Parliament and academics.
China has been accused of detaining at least a million Uighurs in vast re-Education camps in the northwest, with allegations of torture, forced labor and sexual abuse from pro-lifers. In a BBC report released in February, interviewees provided first-hand testimony of rape, sexual abuse and torture of detainees. Beijing authorities have now banned BBC World News from broadcasting in China. British Foreign Secretary David Blue said the treatment of Uighurs is “an appalling violation of the most basic human rights.
The EU Parliament suspended discussions on the China-EU Investment Agreement, and even Switzerland, which has always been neutral, intends to revise the China-Switzerland Free Trade Agreement with China, and on March 19 made a rare comment on human rights in China, criticizing Beijing’s “increasingly authoritarian tendencies” and its suppression of dissidents and ethnic minorities. The government in Beijing is now in a state of limbo, and the governments and people of major economies have learned that they can no longer turn a blind eye to China’s genocide. If Beijing does not change its evil ways, it will harm China’s own trade relations with these economies.
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