My Take | America, why don’t you get your bloodied hands off Hong Kong
- Weaponising human rights against the city and mainland China only becomes more farcical when the US and its close allies are busy violating them
Another day, another official report from the US government criticising and threatening to punish China for interfering with the affairs of Hong Kong, a Chinese city. This is getting farcical.
The latest annual report is released by the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which reports directly to the US Congress under the Hong Kong Autonomy Act passed when Donald Trump was president. And it came out a day before President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Joe Biden had their tete-a-tete in San Francisco. A coincidence?
Not likely. It’s one of those petty gestures typical of Washington ahead of major meetings with the Chinese, presumably to put it in “a position of strength”, as they say.
But the timing and incongruity are just too glaring. At the moment, the US is underwriting, arming and militarily advising Israel in carrying out brutal military operations that credible international authorities have warned amount to war crimes, genocide and/or ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people, in the Occupied Territories, which are illegally occupied and recognised as the Palestinian state by most of the world outside the West, or about 140 countries that are member states of the United Nations.
But here we are; America is concerned that China is interfering with one of its own cities while actively enabling Israel to level Gaza.
We all know how evil Chinese communists are. They are committing genocide not by bombing the entire Uygur population and cutting off food, water, electricity and medicine, or destroying their homes and hospitals in Xinjiang. They are so nasty that they have built Uygurs more schools, homes and hospitals instead of demolishing and bombing them.