Because of the Apple Daily issue and because most staffers in the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Hong Kong have left the city after failing to renew their visas, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price on Monday said the US will “stand with the people of Hong Kong” and “stand by Taiwan.” Saying such hollow words is now as casual and cheap as posting a tweet for Washington, with a sense of shamelessness. Washington has almost used up its tools to show it “stands with the people of Hong Kong” and empty talk is all it has now. Yet, it still has many ways to show it “stands by Taiwan”: making Taiwan use foreign exchange – a result of Taiwan people’s hard work – to purchase US weapons; making Taiwan import US pork and beef containing ractopamine; donating 2.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to support Taiwan authorities consolidating the path of politicizing the epidemic; and rejecting the Chinese mainland’s vaccine which is adequate and recommended by the World Health Organization. Washington has never really cared about the welfare of the people of Hong Kong and Taiwan. All it wants is that Hong Kong will continue to be turbulent, Taiwan will continue to confront the mainland and the US can gain political benefits from it. The US most of the time hijacks the international community’s right to define democracy, freedom, and human rights. It has affected some people’s judgement. When addressing the opening of a Human Rights Council session on Monday, United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said that she hopes for a “meaningful access to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region” this year to assess the human rights situation there. The perception of this top UN human rights official seems to be American- and Western-style. It is a pity that her way of communicating with China over human rights is also deeply influenced by Washington. Some forces in the US and other Western countries have made false accusations that there is “genocide” in Xinjiang. Is Bachelet coming to Xinjiang to conduct an investigation based on the presumption of guilt? Is she going to find out some specious evidence for her vicious accusation? In this case, she will not be welcomed by the Chinese people, including the people of Xinjiang, let alone the Chinese government. China was very cooperative during the origins tracing of the novel coronavirus conducted by WHO experts, who have already finished the investigation successfully and made their conclusion. But the US has ganged up with some allies and oppose the conclusion of the WHO expert team. They insist on conducting a so-called independent and real probe. This is a vicious presumption of guilt, and an insult to China’s sovereignty, which the Chinese people will never accept.
–The Daily Mail-Global Times News Exchange Item
