“Some governments go along willingly with Beijing, including the dictators, autocrats and monarchs who themselves have an abiding interesting in undermining the human rights system that might hold them to account.” @KenRoth #Rights2020
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“The Chinese government’s ascent as a global threat to rights is not unstoppable. But rising to this challenge demands a radical break from a business-as-usual approach.”
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“For example, government leaders who visit China should stop pretending that quiet diplomacy suffices. If they cannot be heard by the people of China—the main engine of change—their interventions make little difference.”
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“Governments should deliberately counter China’s divide-and-conquer strategy for securing silence about its oppression. When governments deal with China on their own, they often opt for silence, but if they band together, the power balance shifts.”
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“For example, if the Organization of Islamic Cooperation were to protest against the Chinese government’s repression of Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, Beijing would need to retaliate against 57 countries.”
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“Similarly, governments should stop rolling out the red carpet for Chinese officials without insisting on real progress on human rights. A state visit should come with a public demand, for example, to give UN investigators independent access to Xinjiang.”
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“Unless we want to return to an era in which people are pawns to be manipulated or discarded according to the whims of their overlords, the Chinese government’s attack on the international human rights system must be resisted.”
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“Decades of progress on human rights are at stake. So is our future.”
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