Les miserables under the US鈥檚 mask of human rights defender
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鈥淎sians are not silent anymore!鈥 cried protesters from more than 60 cities across the United States, who have been rallying against racism and violence on Asian Americans ever since the mass shootings in mid-March in Atlanta where eight people, including six Asians, were killed.
The unfolding campaign is the latest reminder of 鈥渓es miserables鈥 under America鈥檚 long-time masquerade of a human rights defender, and of Washington鈥檚 failure to tackle the systematic racial, social and economic inequality in the country.
Hate crimes targeting Asian Americans have seen a surge ever since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to US nonpartisan research and policy organization the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, anti-Asian hate crimes rocketed by nearly 150 percent in 2020 in 16 largest cities in the United States.
Yet Asian American communities are not the only ones having suffered such traumatic injuries 鈥 never forget African American George Floyd鈥檚 desperate plea of 鈥淚 can鈥檛 breathe鈥 before death last year, and the following massive Black Lives Matter protests, which are still ongoing.
For a long time, the US government and media outlets have turned a blind eye to America鈥檚 own terrible human rights record. Instead, they have thrown themselves into making groundless accusations against the human rights situation in other countries.
The same US media outlets have raised not a single question about America鈥檚 dire COVID-19 situation during President Joe Biden鈥檚 first press conference last Thursday, but are busy pointing a finger at other countries鈥 human rights issues citing their self-proclaimed investigative reports.
Glaring inequalities
The same US government has turned its back on the country鈥檚 ethnic minorities who have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic due to great and persistent racial differences in wealth and access to health services, but is busy retooling its alliances to smear China over Xinjiang.
In fact, Washington is merely playing the human rights card to make its own geopolitical and economic gains.
For example, the ulterior motive of using such phrases as 鈥渇orced labor,鈥 鈥渃oncentration camps鈥 and 鈥済enocide鈥 to describe Xinjiang is to stoke divisions and instability in China, and to contain the country鈥檚 development.
Fortunately, more clear-eyed people worldwide have come to realize Washington鈥檚 hypocrisy and double standards on human rights.
During the 46th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the United States and its allies tried in vain to boast their 鈥渉uman rights superiority,鈥 and were urged by a long list of countries to address their own issues including racism, discrimination, police violence and hate crimes targeted at ethnic minorities.
Indeed, the international community has every reason to doubt the credibility of the high politics Washington is playing, not least at a time when solidarity and cooperation are badly needed in battling such tough global challenges as the pandemic, economic recession and climate change.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught the whole world a lesson crystal clear: National boundaries matter very little in this age when different countries and peoples are inevitably and inextricably connected to one another, and any attempt to split the world into different camps is doomed to failure.
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