China News Agency, Beijing, July 16th: In the name of "human rights", who has been hurt by the US unilateral sanctions?

　　Author Cui Bailu

　　Recently, the 50th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council came to an end.

On the 12th, the U.S. State Department released a list of the outcomes of the meeting, packaging the hyped lies about human rights in Xinjiang as "respect and protection of human rights", with the intention of continuing to confuse black and white, misleading people's perceptions, and acting as irresponsible powers.

　　Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin's comments pointed out the essence: this list should be called a "list of human rights violations" rather than a "list of human rights achievements".

　　Behind the lies are acts of sabotage that lack a basis in international law.

The United States has imposed sanctions on Xinjiang enterprises and personnel under the pretext of "genocide" and "forced labor" lies.

This seriously harms the basic human rights of the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, including the Uyghurs, to the right to employment and development.

Data map: Businessmen operating ethnic musical instruments teach tourists to play Xinjiang hand drums.

Photo by Liu Xin

　　Why does the United States, which calls itself a "human rights defender", do this?

Because it does not really care about human rights in Xinjiang, but for the political purpose of "using Xinjiang to control China", it politicizes, instrumentalizes and weaponizes human rights, tries to separate Xinjiang from the global industrial chain, and creates "forced unemployment" in Xinjiang." Forced return to poverty” and “forced decoupling and disconnection”, in order to undermine social stability and curb China’s development.

　　For example, the so-called "Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act" that came into effect recently in the United States imposed a ban on imports of Xinjiang products and raw materials on the grounds of human rights concerns.

According to the "rebuttable presumption" clause, the U.S. government will ban entry unless the company "proves its own innocence".

If this "presumption of guilt" is still a little vague, then the sinister intentions of Xinjiang's key industries such as cotton, tomato, and polysilicon are listed as "sanctioned priorities".

Data map: In Xinjiang cotton fields, a large planter equipped with a GPS satellite positioning and navigation system is at full capacity to sow cotton.

Photo by China News Agency and Hu Re. Image source: CNSphoto

　　In fact, sanctions are a special tool used by the UN Security Council to maintain or restore international peace and security. No country has the right to set up a court or use a public instrument for private use.

The signing of the United Nations Charter in 1945 established an international system with the United Nations at its core and an international order based on international law, as well as a series of purposes such as "the sovereign equality of all countries", "non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries" and "the settlement of disputes by peaceful means". And principles, this is the great progress of human civilization.

　　However, for a long time, the United States has placed its own interests above the common interests of all countries, its domestic law above international law, and ignoring international rules. , undermining the sovereignty and human rights of other countries, and repeatedly undermining the international order.

　　In Cuba, the 60-year-long U.S. blockade has caused the country to suffer an economic loss of about $150 billion; in Afghanistan, the long-term U.S. military intervention and illegal freezing of $7 billion in "life-saving money" have plunged the country's people into a humanitarian crisis; In Iran, U.S. sanctions could kill as many as 13,000 Iranians from the outbreak, according to estimates by the Brookings Institution.

On May 12, 2022, local time, the flag was flown at half mast in Times Square in New York, the United States to pay tribute to the millions of people who died of the new crown.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Liao Pan

　　As of fiscal year 2021, the United States has a total of 9,421 sanctions in effect, a 10-fold increase over the past 20 years.

The US Foreign Policy article pointed out that the abuse of trade and financial sanctions by Western countries led by the United States will inevitably lead to countries walking on thin ice in international trade and further damage the process of globalization.

Unrestricted sanctions have disrupted global supply and industrial chains, pushed up world energy and food prices, made the already difficult world economy even worse, and made developing countries that are more economically vulnerable face even greater shocks.

　　The United States itself is also suffering from a backlash. In June this year, the national consumer price index (CPI) rose 9.1% year-on-year, facing the highest inflation in 40 years and a serious supply chain crisis.

U.S. companies and consumers, who ultimately bear the cost of sanctions, are increasingly dissatisfied with the U.S. government's unilateral sanctions that "harm others but not themselves".

　　In the name of "protecting human rights", the truth of "violating human rights", no matter how it is packaged, a lie is always a lie.

The United States moves against the trend of the times and is doomed to fail.

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