Video: US in no position to lecture China on human rights – China Vice Foreign Minister. 美國沒有資格在人權問題上對中國說教 – 中國外交部副部長。
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Le Yucheng: Democracy and human rights are not posters or slogans. They are not decorations for window dressing. True democracy and human rights are about guaranteeing basic rights such as employment, housing, food and clothing, education, health service, elderly care and so on. To judge whether a medicine works, one does not look at its advertising but its efficacy. The logic is the same for democracy and human rights. The CPC has made extraordinary governance achievements in the past 100 years. That in itself constitutes the most successful and convincing democracy. The CPC led the 1.4 billion Chinese people in successfully ending extreme poverty that had plagued the nation for thousands of years, and in living a happy life. That in itself is the biggest and greatest human right. So there is no ground at all to accuse the CPC on human rights. In fact, the CPC deserves to be decorated and awarded a gold medal.
The United States and other Western countries are in no position to lecture us on democracy or human rights. They all have a heavily stained human rights record. Historically, these countries engaged in genocide against indigenous peoples and discrimination and persecution against minority ethnic communities. During the United States Westward Expansion after its independence, large numbers of native Americans were slaughtered and dispossessed, causing their population to dwindle from five million to a quarter million in just over 100 years. Native Americans were once the bulk of the population in North America. Today however, they only account for less than two percent of U.S. population. And they were not given U.S. citizenship until 1924. In Canada, remains of over 200 dead children and more than 1,000 unmarked graves were found at the sites of former residential schools for indigenous children. Over the past 160 years, at least 4,000 Canadian children died at residential schools for no natural reason. Even to this day, right inside the United States, people such as George Floyd still “can’t breathe”. Minority groups remain victims of discrimination, and the homeless have to live on the streets. How brazen it is that these countries have the courage to call themselves “human rights defenders”, lecture others on human rights, and talk down to or point fingers at others. This is nothing but interference in other countries’ domestic affairs in the name of human rights.
Many Chinese share the view on the Internet that some Americans showing concerns for China’s human rights feels like “weasels wishing chickens a happy new year”. The United States, as is widely known, has policies against not just China, but also Muslims. In recent years, almost all the bombs fired by the U.S. troops have dropped on Muslim-inhabited territories. The first country that issued a Muslim ban was the United States. But absurdly, the United States is now “worried” about human rights of Chinese Muslims who live a happy life in Xinjiang. Isn’t that preposterous?
Johnson Choi Biz 