U.S. Deserves Its Defeat In U.N. Human Rights Body Reelection:Chinese ExpertsChinese experts responded to the failure of the United States to get reelected to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, saying, "It is not surprising" and "It deserves the defeat."Zhu Muzhi, honorary president of the China Society for the Study of Human Rights, told the state new agency Xinhua Friday that the defeat was the inevitable end of the United States' long biased condemnation of other countries using the camouflage of "human rights." The U.S., on Thursday, lost its seat on the U.N. Commission on Human Rights at the organizational conference of the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). It only won 29 votes among 54 ECOSOC members in the election. "People across the world have long been angry with the arrogance of the United States and its practice of imposing its own human rights standards on others," Zhu said. He added that the exclusion from the U.N. human rights body once again showed the widespread resentment among the countries of the world towards the U.S. for its "hegemonism." According to Zhu, the human rights issue is actually only a " big stick" for the U.S. to use on other countries for its own hegemonic purposes. Zhou Jue, president of the China Society for the Study of Human Rights, said that "The U.S. has become used to blaming others while speaking nothing of its own human rights abuses, and this time the world's countries have taught the U.S. a lesson," he said. The expert said that dialogue and cooperation on human rights issues have become the mainstream and a historical trend of our age, therefore "it is time for the U.S. to make a self-examination ". "I strongly hope the U.S. administration recognize its position and return to the correct course of dialogue," he said. However, according to Zhou, despite its failure and embarrassment, the U.S. is likely to continue its hegemonism and intervention in the internal affairs of other countries in the name of human rights, and the world's countries need to remain vigilant against this. |
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