“What gives the UK the confidence and makes it feel it’s in a position to stand on the moral high ground and demand that `the Chinese authorities must abide by their international human rights obligations’,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian questioned today.
This time, Zhao stuck to British current human rights violations, leaving the United Kingdom’s genocidal colonial history for another day. He cited “the increasing number of people living below the poverty line” in the UK, its “indifference to people’s right to life and health, deteriorating living conditions for ethnic minorities, acute Islamophobia, growing deficiency and injustice in education, record-high crime rate, modern slavery, attempt to cover up a number of war crimes, and the list goes on and on.
