Focus interview丨Sterious! Reveal the true face of the US "Human Rights Defender"
On March 24, the State Council Information Office released the "Human Rights Violation Report in the United States in 2020."
The US government has always made irresponsible remarks about the human rights situation in other countries in the world.
But how is the United States doing itself?
The Foreign Ministry spokesperson recently pointed out that some people in the United States have proclaimed themselves "human rights judges" for too long. The so-called beacon of human rights has only looked at others but not themselves. They have selectively ignored the country's long-standing human rights issues.
Now, let's use facts to look at the human rights plight of the United States, which claims to be a "human rights guardian."
On June 17, 2020, at the 43rd meeting of the Human Rights Council, a special debate on racism was held.
This is an urgent debate on human rights issues in the United States.
Police violent law enforcement and obvious racial discrimination have caused protests across the United States.
These systematic acts of racial discrimination, racism, and police violence against people of African descent were condemned by all parties in the special debate on racism at the 43rd session of the UN Human Rights Council.
In the United States, cases of African American deaths occur frequently because of racial discrimination and police violent law enforcement.
Among the protesters in the demonstration, some were relatives of victims who have been killed by police violence over the years.
Gwen Carr's son Eric Garner was "locked" by the US police and died in 2014.
In the United States, African Americans are three times more likely to be killed by police than whites.
From 2013 to 2020, about 98% of the police involved in the case were not charged with a crime, and the number of convicted police officers was even rarer.
Systematic racial discrimination exists in the law enforcement and judicial field in the United States.
In the United States, social discrimination against ethnic minorities is widespread, and inequality between races is also increasing: the median wealth of white families is 42 times that of African Americans and 23 times that of Hispanics.
In the United States, racism is a comprehensive, systematic and continuous existence.
In 2020, the new crown pneumonia epidemic is raging around the world and poses a major threat to the safety of human life.
The process of new crown pneumonia getting out of control in the United States also reflects the status quo of "human rights" in the United States.
As of late March 2021, the United States, a country recognized in the world as having abundant medical resources and strong medical care capabilities, had nearly 30 million confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia, and more than 500,000 Americans had lost their precious lives.
The United States has become the country with the largest number of confirmed cases and deaths of new crown pneumonia in the world.
Human beings are the foundation of human rights.
The right to life and health are the most basic human rights.
The new crown pneumonia epidemic has brought a test to the protection of the right to life and health.
In reviewing the timeline of the U.S. epidemic, the White House National Security Council received intelligence in early January 2020, predicting that the virus will spread in the United States. Health officials and medical experts have repeatedly warned of the danger of an outbreak in the United States, but the U.S. government at the time was Various warnings were ignored, causing the "golden window" of epidemic prevention and control to be wasted in vain.
Although many medical studies have confirmed that wearing masks can effectively prevent infection, the then US government leaders and some state government officials have long refused to implement mandatory mask orders.
Public health measures that could save lives have become a political issue and are difficult to implement.
The government's inaction caused the epidemic to get out of control, and the US stock market triggered the market circuit breaker mechanism many times. At this time, the US government issued epidemic prevention and control measures on March 13, 2020, declaring a "national emergency."
Diao Daming, a researcher at the National Institute of Development and Strategy, Renmin University of China:
The fuse of the stock market means that the big
benefactor
behind the owner of the White House has suffered a loss of interest, so that the president who held the reelection election that year has to make a so-called response.
So you can see from the beginning that when facing the epidemic, he did not regard the new crown pneumonia epidemic as a major national crisis endangering the lives of ordinary people in the United States, but regarded this epidemic as a possible impact on his re-election. Such a stumbling block.
Prevention and control are for political reasons, and so are the subsequent restarts.
With the epidemic spreading in a large area in the United States, and the number of confirmed cases and deaths has risen to the top in the world, the US government is still anxious to restart the economy for political purposes.
The prevention and control of the epidemic requires respect for science.
However, looking at the process of fighting the epidemic in the United States, science has given way to politics and human rights to private interests.
This has directly led to successive defeats in the prevention and control of the epidemic in the United States.
In the early stage of the outbreak in the United States, the U.S. government at that time did not consider the rights of the people in every judgment and decision made by the U.S. government at the time. Instead, it responded from the logic of the election.
During the epidemic, due to the dispute between the Republican and Democratic parties, the efficiency of epidemic prevention and control was low.
The United States claims to be a "model" of the democratic system, and it frequently criticizes and suppresses many countries under the banner of safeguarding democracy, freedom, and human rights.
In the United States, the opposition between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party has gradually changed from a policy dispute to an identity dispute.
The phenomenon of political polarization is getting worse.
The 2020 elections have aggravated political differences and confrontations.
The defeated Republican camp accused of fraud in the election and refused to accept the results of the presidential election.
Trump called on his supporters to go to Washington to protest Congress' confirmation of the election results.
On January 6, 2021, tens of thousands of demonstrators who refused to accept the results of the election held a "Save America" demonstration rally in Washington. They crossed the guard line, broke the wall and broke into the Capitol, clashed with the police, and the election dispute turned into riots. .
This series of chaos shocked the world.
Hao Luyi, an associate researcher at the Institute of International Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: As long as the
United States has different human rights values or ideologies from the United States, the United States treats these countries as alien and arbitrarily criticizes them in the name of human rights.
We say that this is a typical US practice in the name of human rights and hegemony.
The United States should reflect on the serious problems that exist in its own country instead of blaming other countries.
The United Nations Human Rights Council approved the report on the universal periodic review of the United States’ human rights on March 17.
During this review, representatives of 116 countries commented on the human rights situation in the United States.
Representatives of these countries, together with relevant United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations, have put forward 347 human rights improvements to the United States in various forms.
This review once again systematically exposed its dark side on human rights issues.
The international community generally hopes that the United States can directly face its own problems and take practical measures to prevent its human rights situation from further deteriorating.
In the current era, the development of human society is at a new crossroads.
We hope that all countries in the world can meet each other halfway to build a community with a shared future for mankind and build a better future.
Producer丨Liu Xuesong and Huang Jie
Editor丨Tian Yu
Camera丨Zhang Min
Editor in charge丨Liu Xiaoping and Ma Rutao
Editing丨Zheng Yu Zhang Wenqing