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Repulsive: John Kerry Accepts China's Genocide to Get Climate Deal
| John Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, is reinforcing a dangerous Chinese mindset by not talking about human rights. He is surrendering the most important leverage the U.S. has over China. Even if he thinks he should try to obtain China's cooperation on climate — a debatable goal — he is going about it the wrong way. If you want to get Chinese communists to do something, you have to impose great costs. That gives them an incentive to do something to relieve the pain. Offers of cooperation never work for long. Unfortunately, Beijing believes signals of friendship show American weakness. Pictured: Kerry on September 17, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images) |
What is wrong with Kerry's response? For one thing, such a trade-off violates the Genocide Convention of 1948, which requires signatories, such as the United States, to undertake "to prevent and to punish" acts of genocide. China is committing "genocide," as defined in Article II of the Convention, against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Turkic minorities.
Second, Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, was going back on his word. In January, he said that climate was a "critical standalone issue" and promised that other matters "will never be traded for anything that has to do with climate."
Repulsive: John Kerry Accepts China's Genocide to Get Climate Deal
The Beijing regime has, over the course of decades, attacked fundamental U.S. interests by, among other things, inciting violence on American streets, deliberately spreading COVID-19 beyond China's borders to America and the rest of the world, exporting
