Letters | The US ‘selective’ about human rights? How about China backers who overlook Beijing’s misdeeds?

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Books by Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Uygur language, left, and Kazakh language, right, are displayed at an official press conference on the issues of “building a beautiful Xinjiang, jointly realising the Chinese dream”, in Beijing on July 30. Photo: Simon Song

Published: 3:00am, 9 Dec 2019Updated: 3:00am, 9 Dec 2019

Once again, Alex Lo shows his prejudice against the US (“The United States is once again selective in caring about rights”, November 28) and, while attempting to be pro-Beijing, his examples of the US being “selective” when “caring about rights” really just shoot China in the foot.

Instead of worrying about rights in Kashmir, Saudi Arabia and Israel, Mr Lo would be better off looking at his friends (or in reality, fiends) across the border in China.

I guess Mr Lo is happy to turn a blind eye to the alleged concentration camps in China, where as many as 1 million Uygur Muslims are reportedly imprisoned.

If Saudi Arabia is such a bad player, why is it China’s largest oil supplier? And if Israeli settlements are illegal, as they are built on lands (falsely) claimed by Arabs but which historically have belonged to Israel, what does that do to China’s claim of sovereignty over, and illegal occupation of, Tibet?

If Israel’s historical ownership of Judea and Samaria (what Mr Lo would call the “occupied territories”) is invalid, what does that do to China’s historical claim to Taiwan and competing claims with the Philippines?

Mr Lo, if you really care about rights, I suggest you check out the abuses of the “one country” that promised “two systems” but has seemingly reneged on that deal!

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Letters | The US ‘selective’ about human rights? How about China backers who overlook Beijing’s misdeeds?