U.S. rivals accuse America of hypocrisy.
The Trump administration has cracked down on widespread demonstrations over the death of George Floyd, and America’s chief geopolitical rivals—including China, Russia and Iran—have condemned the United States for its hypocrisy.KEY FACTSthe U.S. over its handling of the protests, using political cartoons and tweets to accuse Washington of hypocrisy for criticizing China in the past over its crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square 31 years ago, and more recently, in Hong Kong.
“The timing couldn’t have been better for China,” since it faces its own protests in Hong Kong, Rodger Baker, senior vice president of strategic analysis at Stratfor, tells; it allows the Chinese government to “send a message to its people: ‘at least we’re putting things in order in Hong Kong, so how can the U.S. yell at us?’”Washington for hypocrisy and not protecting the rights of its own citizens—while routinely criticizing Russia for just that.
The foreign minister accompanied his post with an old statement from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, criticizing Iran’s handling of protests in 2018, but“The more they can point out hypocrisy, the more influence China is ultimately able to exert in reshaping international norms,” says Baker.
As for Russia, its tactics can be traced back to the Cold War, Baker says: The Soviet Union was “constantly emphasizing anomalies in U.S. history and pointing out that they have no moral standing to tell the rest of the world what to do.” Russian authorities are “enjoying” the unrest in the United States because it gives them the opportunity to get their own propaganda messages across, Ivan Kurilla, an expert on Russian-American relations at the European University in St. Petersburg, similarly.
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