China & Human Rights, Mid-March 2024: Aiding Russia and Targeting Tibet as an Authoritarian Bloc Rises - Domino Theory
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China deploys multiple resources to construct dictatorship beyond its borders, reinforce Kim Jong-un’s regime and supply the Russian war machine. At home, national security arrests and deaths in custody mount as the Communist Party consolidates its grip on the state in an information vacuum. For once, journalists fight back.

Cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/12938714

A strong statement emerged from Volker Turk, the current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who, during a global update to the U.N. human rights council a few weeks ago, directly challenged the Chinese government to accompany poverty alleviation with “reforms to align relevant laws and policies with international human rights standards.”

The U.N. has been roundly criticized in recent years for its failure to achieve much in China other than more effective methods of smothering dissent, in part because it seems institutionally compromised by the Chinese Communist Party regime. Turk’s comments do at least acknowledge that crimes are happening, but more than just words are required for change to be expected.