Three weeks after accusing Myanmar of “genocide” and months after doing the same to China, the United States accused Russia. And they began “vigorously debating,” in the words of the New York Times, whether they will help the court in The Hague.
In fact, according to the NPR network, they have already begun to do so.
Democrats and Republicans support what they refused before, says the NYT. In 2002, after the invasion of Afghanistan, they passed a law even determining violence against the court if it targets Americans. Two years ago, with the opening of an investigation, they sanctioned the Prosecutor General of The Hague himself.
Now, as a Yale professor writes in the Washington Post, “there’s no getting around the accusation of hypocrisy,” adding, however, that there are more important things than “silly consistency.”
Not even India can escape, even if the US does not speak of genocide. Seeking to withdraw the country from supporting Russia, the US Secretary of State announced:
“We are monitoring developments in India, including an increase in human rights abuses by government officials.”
The Indian colleague’s answer came days later, reported by the Press Trust of India agency and highlighted in the country’s main vehicles:
“People have the right to have opinions about us, but we also have the right to have opinions about the interests that drive them.”
And more: “We have our opinions on the human rights situation in the US. And we address issues when they arise in this country, especially when they concern our community. [indiana]. We had an affair yesterday.”
The tone is the same one adopted by Beijing in response to Washington. Xinhua agency over the weekend dispatched video and full report by a human rights organization, “exposing the growing anti-Asian racism in the US”.
MBS AND PEACE
The Saudi government’s international news channel, Al Arabyia, reported that “Crown Prince” Mohammed bin Salman, who rules the country, spoke to Xi Jinping and then Vladimir Putin over the weekend.
With the Chinese president, he discussed how to “expand the strategic partnership.” With Russian, the “joint work” in OPEC+, the cartel of oil producers. With both, he also spoke of his recent efforts for peace in Yemen, receiving “praise”.
1 MILLION IN THE NEXT WEEKS
CNN highlighted more “hard numbers” for Joe Biden’s approval in the polls, including “the lowest for anyone who has been elected president” (above).
And the NYT added that Covid-19 infections have returned, amid the “expectation” that the total number of deaths will reach the “1 million mark in the coming weeks”.
