PeteFree.comChina lands one on the braggart's snout — 'winter toilet' Texas becomes the bad example that highlights the PRC's success — ouch
© 2021 Peter Free
25 February 2021
Why worry, when American Adam Henrys are in charge?
From Reuters:
China’s foreign ministry said on Friday that seeing the plight of Americans suffering in a severe winter storm that hit the state of Texas this week reinforced a belief among Chinese citizens that their country is “on the right path”.
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the comments in response to a question from a state media journalist on calls by western countries for an investigation into alleged human rights abuses in its western Xinjiang region.
“Not to be wanting of food or clothing, not to be hungry or cold, this is the fundamental human right that is the most real,” she said.
“In the meantime in Texas ... millions of people found themselves caught in the terrible situation of not having electricity and heating at home, a few tens of people even lost their lives because of this,” she said.
“This gave the Chinese people a deeper appreciation for what is the real human right . . . ."
© 2021 Staff, Texas weather crisis deepens Chinese belief they're 'on right path', says foreign ministry, Reuters (19 February 2021)
The moral? — Foreign folks can see through our easily disproven US claims of moral superiority
Hua Chunying certainly made an ethically valid point.
Similarly, did Portuguese-speaker "vk" — who sardonically said recently (of the US forever war in Afghanistan) that:
[T]he Taliban are the model of American libertarianism:
alpha males, heads of their families and sometimes villages, picking up arms to defend their private property against an alien invader.
The USA is inadvertently killing what it loves the most, the embodiment of the American Dream itself.
© 2021 vk, "This affirmation is false" — comment 16 — posted below Moon of Alabama, Biden Commits To Forever War On Afghanistan, moonofalabama.org (23 February 2021)
Ouch again.