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America’s Anti-China Human Rights Hype

As U.S. President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Anthony Blinken attempt to rebrand post-Donald Trump America through new policies and narratives at home and abroad, the topic of “human rights” has become, once again, a focal point of Washington’s propaganda. China should welcome this discussion and join it robustly.

A dark history

From what pedestal does the U.S. preach and point? Which president in American history had clean hands? Which president did not preside over a nation with systemic abuse of its own people, especially the poor, women and minorities? Which have avoided war and aggression?

The U.S. came into being through genocide against Native Americans, shady deals with despots that more than doubled the nation’s size, aggressive wars against Mexico and Spain, and invasions and suppressions as the U.S. went global at the end of the

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