China News Service: The United States should start to heal itself by improving domestic human rights

　　BEIJING, Dec. 1 electrical

　　Author: Pang Yan

　　The results of the US general election were announced recently.

Based on the Democratic Party’s tradition of attaching more importance to values ​​in foreign affairs than the Republican Party, external analysis believes that if the new government is finally confirmed, or to strengthen the position of human rights and other values ​​in diplomacy, it will re-establish the United States’ international influence and leadership.

However, with the obvious exposure of American social problems and serious social tearing, it is better to improve domestic human rights to heal yourself than to regain value diplomacy.

　　In essence, the essence of human rights lies in the protection of human survival and development value.

Frankly speaking, on this subject, there is no absolute uniform standard in human society, and no country has reached a height that cannot be criticized.

Human rights issues will inevitably be in a dynamic optimization process with the development and evolution of human society.

　　However, the United States has relied on its superior hegemonic power in the past, has long controlled the discourse of international human rights, and regarded itself as a "human rights beacon and guardian", but it has turned a blind eye to its own large-scale, continuous, and systemic human rights issues, making it difficult to end today's problems.

The US media Politico has made a comment, citing a series of human rights issues that the United States has repeatedly received international attention and criticism in recent years, and pointed out that the United States is increasingly seen as a fragile country that needs help.

　　The fragility evaluated by the US media is first reflected in the lack of protection for the lives of ordinary Americans.

According to data from the “Gun Violence Archives”, there were 415 mass shooting incidents in the United States in 2019, an average of more than one per day, the highest record since statistics.

However, due to the huge industrial chain and interest groups formed by the manufacture, sale and use of guns, even if the United States has become the country with the most serious gun violence in the world, it is still difficult to make breakthroughs at the legislative and administrative levels.

Under the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the United States, as the country with the highest level of medical care in the world, the government ignores the people's right to life and is seriously lacking in public health governance.

So far, more than 13 million people have been diagnosed in the United States, and the cumulative death toll has exceeded 260,000. The people have been in a long-term fear of being dominated by the virus and it is hard to see hope.

The "Washington Post" even pointed out that the US epidemic has become a state-sanctioned killing.

　　This vulnerability is also reflected in the fact that systemic racial conflicts are always ignored, and society is severely torn apart.

As an immigrant society in the United States, racial issues accompany the entire history of development, and skin color plays an important role in determining the fate of individuals.

The white supremacy political structure and ideology have been artificially manipulated to the extreme in the past few years, and ethnic minorities have been discriminated against in all areas of politics, economy, culture, and social life.

The "Freud Incident" that detonated the nation before this is just a microcosm of the long-term racial discrimination problem in the United States.

This problem has also been revealed in the response to the epidemic.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States show that the diagnosis rate, hospitalization rate, and death rate of African Americans are 2.6, 4.7, and 2.1 times that of whites, respectively.

Among them, there are many reasons why ethnic minorities are mostly engaged in the bottom, lack of health protection, poor living conditions, and lack of public health insurance. The deep-seated contradictions are the widening gap between the rich and the poor and social injustice in the United States.

　　On the 9th of this month, the 36th meeting of the Human Rights Review Working Group of the United Nations Human Rights Council reviewed the human rights situation in the United States. Representatives from more than 110 countries made criticisms and suggestions for improvement on the human rights situation in the United States.

In addition to systemic racial discrimination, issues such as stigmatization of immigrants and refugees, detention of unaccompanied children, excessive use of force, erosion of women’s reproductive health rights, and legal policy standards and opacity of norms that resort to lethal force globally are also of concern. .

　　It can be said that the moral foundation of the United States on human rights issues has suffered a collapse in the past few years.

To re-establish the American "beacon" of human rights, freedom, and democracy, the United States must first focus on domestic governance, and must first improve its human rights situation.

On the one hand, if systemic human rights issues are not addressed and reformed, it will be difficult for the entire society to regroup, and the torn social atmosphere in the country will not help various fields to get back on track.

On the other hand, the human rights situation in the United States can hardly be concealed by hegemony, and it is widely focused by the international community.

If the problem is not improved, countries and people all over the world who advocate and strive for the advancement of human rights will continue to feel disappointed in the authorities, and will not regard them as a trustworthy partner, which will be detrimental to the restoration of the US's international image and influence.

　　Robert Marley, President and CEO of the International Crisis Organization and assistant to former U.S. President Barack Obama, once criticized that the current U.S. government has widened the "credibility gap" in the past in promoting human rights into a "credibility gap." Human rights seem to be just a currency for trading. .

Next, no matter which party is in power, it may as well be more sincere and courageous in human rights issues, let go of double standards, and complete salvation and self-healing from the improvement of domestic human rights.

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