Communist Domination in Turtle Bay: How the United Nations serves the Chinese Communist regime

Last year, Nikki Haley, who served as United States ambassador to the UN for two years, from January 2017 to January 2019, accused the Chinese regime of “quietly working to corrupt the United Nations from top to bottom.” She asked the current administration to “call out China’s attempts to co-opt the United Nations and its agencies.” Haley’s request was met with silence.

Communist Domination in Turtle Bay: How the United Nations serves the Chinese Communist regime GettyImages-1359349367

Communist Domination in Turtle Bay: How the United Nations serves the Chinese Communist regime GettyImages-1359349367

Case in point: Is the Chinese regime committing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang? The monitors at Amnesty and Human Rights Watch (HRW) certainly think so. Officials at the United Nations (UN), however, seem to be on the fence. On February 2, The South China Morning Post (SCMP) published a piece accusing the UN and China of coming to a “mutually convenient stalemate.” The accusation came shortly after the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) announced that it “will not publish a report on alleged abuses in the Chinese region of Xinjiang before this month’s Winter Olympics.” This report has been in the works since 2019, raising the question of the UN’s compliance vis-a-vis the Chinese regime?

I reached out to Louis Charbonneau, United Nations Director at Human Rights Watch. When asked for his thoughts on the UN, he didn’t hold back.

Charbonneau prefaced his comments by disagreeing “with the use of the word ‘stalemate,’ which suggests the UN leadership has in some sense confronted the Chinese government, and the two sides have stepped back as equals.” In his opinion, the UN has not confronted the Chinese regime. He added, “What we’re seeing looks more like capitulation on the UN’s part when it comes to human rights in China. The reality is neither the UN Secretary-General nor the High Commissioner for Human Rights has demonstrated a real willingness to confront China about its crimes against humanity in Xinjiang or its widespread and well-documented rights abuses elsewhere across the country.” What sort of influence has the regime over the UN, I asked? Charbonneau responded, “China is now the second biggest financial contributor to the UN after the U.S. and likes to throw its weight around. The UN leadership tries as much as possible to stay out of the way.”

He stressed that the UN must “make clear to Chinese authorities that the international community isn’t fooled by the Chinese government’s attempts to play the victim, or its feeble claims that reports of its widespread and systematic human rights abuses are a pack of lies.”

.https://americanmind.org/salvo/communist-domination-in-turtle-bay/

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Communist Domination in Turtle Bay: How the United Nations serves the Chinese Communist regime

Communist Domination in Turtle Bay: How the United Nations serves the Chinese Communist regime

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