{"id":99901,"date":"2020-03-13T16:05:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T23:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99901"},"modified":"2020-03-13T16:05:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T23:05:17","slug":"time-to-pay-attention-to-human-rights-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/13\/time-to-pay-attention-to-human-rights-in-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to pay attention to human rights in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source:Global Times Published: 2020\/3\/12\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Chen Xu, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations\nOffice at Geneva, speaks during the opening ceremony of the photo exhibition\n“Home: Glimpse of People from Various Ethnic Groups in Xinjiang<\/strong><\/a>”\nin Geneva, Switzerland, on March 2. More than 100 pictures and videos\npresenting a beautiful, open, and richly-endowed Xinjiang were on display\nMonday here inside the Palais Des Nations during the 43rd regular session of\nthe UN Human Rights Council. The exhibition has three divisions with respective\nthemes of peace and stability, cultural prosperity, and religious harmony. Photo:\nXinhua<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights\nPractices, issued by the US Department of State on Wednesday, is like a veil\nthat conceals the US’ own human rights wrongdoings. The report listed some\nso-called human rights violations and lambasted the Xinjiang policy of the\nChinese government. 
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\nAt the press conference on the report, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\nsingled out China, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba as among the worst violators. By\nusing clich\u00e9s, this senior US official behaved like a political scoundrel and\nsmeared China by calling China’s treatment of Muslims “stain of the\ncentury.” 
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\nLike previous reports, this one ignores China’s progress in its human rights\nand the improvement of the level of human rights among all ethnicities in\nXinjiang. Based on a fixated anti-China mentality, US politicians cared nothing\nabout China’s human rights and were ignorant of China’s development. Anyway,\nthey don’t have to know what is taking place in China. They have viewed China\nas a strategic competitor and an ideological rival. What they need is an\nall-around containment of China.
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\nThe novel coronavirus outbreak has spread worldwide and has been declared by\nthe WHO as a pandemic. The outbreak concerns life and survival. The most urgent\ntask right now is how to enhance the ability to fight the pandemic through\nmultilateral cooperation, but the US State Department spares no time\ncriticizing other countries’ human rights. This explains why the US government\nhas been widely criticized for its slow response to the outbreak.
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\nToday’s US politics is trapped in the fierce political battle between the\nRepublican and Democratic parties, and is kidnapped by far-right ideology,\nconservatism and nationalism. The US’ China policy is being exploited by some\nideological extremists, becoming the victim of the ongoing fights in its\npolitical arena. After the outbreak of the current epidemic, China had once\nagain been turned into a scapegoat of US domestic problems. Against this\nbackdrop, the human rights report has lost its significance over human rights\nissue, but has become a bullet toward the US’ strategic competitor.  
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\nThere is no universal path of human rights development, not to mention the\nso-called perfect human rights. Every country has the right to find its own way\nof improving its human rights. The development of human rights worldwide should\nnot be dominated by the US.
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\nThe US is in no position to judge other countries’ human rights, and only\nordinary people in each country have a say. The most important part about human\nrights is whether people are living in a peaceful, stable society and whether\nthey are entitled to the basic rights of pursuing a happy life. Yet, such human\nrights can hardly be found in a country where people resort to guns for\nprotecting themselves, where people have to check their own bank account to see\nif they can afford the treatment if being infected by the novel coronavirus.\nOne can never wake up a person pretending to be asleep.
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\nThe newly issued report is filled with diplomatic and political antagonism. It\nviolates the concept of human rights advocated by the UN Human Rights Council.\nIts only value is to remind people that it is time to pay some attention to the\nhuman rights situation in the US.
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\nThanks to the joint efforts of the government and the people, China’s economic\ndevelopment and human rights conditions are embracing their best period in\nhistory. Chinese people have the final say and the international community is\nthe witness. The best option to improve China’s human rights is to bring the\ncurrent governance advantages into full play regardless of the interference\nfrom a conceited and lying Pompeo and his followers.
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\nCourtesy: Global Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source:Global Times Published: 2020\/3\/12\u00a0 Chen Xu, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva, speaks during the opening ceremony of the photo exhibition “Home: Glimpse of People from Various Ethnic Groups in Xinjiang” in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 2. More than 100 pictures and videos presenting a beautiful, open, and richly-endowed Xinjiang were on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}