Human Rights Maps (61): Countries That Have Hurt the Feelings of China

When diplomats lose their economic inhibitions and, exceptionally, replace economic self-interest by moral courage and criticize China for its human rights record at home (or, increasingly, abroad as well), or even when a government official simply meets the Dalai Lama without saying anything about China, it is as if the Chinese government plays a set of prerecorded responses. Every time, one hears the same, stale phrases about “intervening in the internal affairs of a sovereign country”, “hurting the feelings of the Chinese people”, “insulting the dignity of our nation,” and “disrespecting our people and their principles”. A Chinese blogger went through The People’s Daily (the Chinese version of the Pravda) to see which country is most disrespectful of China. On the first place is Japan, followed by the U.S. and NATO. But many countries seem to lack respect:

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More on intervention in China here and here.