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The UN Fails Again on Human Rights in China

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The UN Fails Again on Human Rights in China — United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet delivers a speech at the opening of a special session of the UN Human Rights Council on Afghanistan in Geneva on Aug. 24, 2021. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

Anders Corr

6/6/2022|Updated: 6/6/2022

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The United Nations’ visit to China’s Xinjiang region elicited outrage among human rights advocates and Western government officials.

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Anders Corr

Author

Anders Corr has a bachelor’s/master’s in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea” (2018).