Cynical mimicry: China and Russia talk anti-corruption at the UN
www.euronews.com
Redefining terms like anti-corruption, human rights, democracy, and integrity — even when self-evidently disingenuous — provides China the cover to mimic the mechanisms of good governance while blunting efforts to hold authoritarian regimes accountable, Elaine Dezenski writes.
  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    41·
    10 months ago

    Its curious to see the Chinese government called out for being insufficiently dedicated to anti-corruption measures while doggedly insisting that the myriad prosecutions of corrupt officials within both the Chinese public and private sector are these horrible infringements on civil rights. We’ve got Chinese ex-pats who fled to the US and went right back to committing crimes as soon as they arrived. Billions of dollars defrauded from Americans because the US was intent on protecting known malicious actors that the Chinese government had planned to prosecute.

    Like, Russia? Fine, sure. Whatever. That place has been a dumpster fire since at least Yeltsin. But at some point, western media isn’t denouncing fraud. It is implicitly covering for these crooks under the “China Bad” banner head.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      The author of the article is

      Elaine Dezenski is Senior Director and Head of the Center on Economic and Financial Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. FDD is a Washington, DC-based, nonpartisan research institute focusing on national security and foreign policy.

      So take that into account, but the core point of the whole talk being fluff without any substance is true. All sides talked about how good they are and how good their ideas are without doing anything to actually address any issues.