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Respect for a Real System of International Law Long Overdue

来源：作者： James O’Neill* 点击：发布时间：2021-04-07 13:14:15

《纽约时报》北京分社社长斯蒂芬·迈尔斯（Stephen Myers）于2021年3月29日发表文章表示，美国对中国的宣传战持续展开。这篇文章的原标题是“独裁国家的联盟？中国想要领导一个新的世界秩序”。迈尔斯坚称，“中国希望将自己定位为以美国为首的国际秩序的主要领导者，而这一国际秩序通常以‘尊重人权和遵守法律’的民主原则作为其指导。”

“以规则为基础的国际秩序”这句话是美国及其像澳大利亚这样忠实拥护的追随者向世界展示其虚伪的表现。如果我们回顾美国在二战后的所作所为，那么很难看到美国对“法律规则”的尊重。自二战结束以来，美国在推翻全球至少七十个政府方面发挥了重要作用。这些政府与其说是不遵守法治，不如说是推行了美国政府所不赞同的政策。

当美国政府在强行推翻其不赞成的政府时，几乎没有尊重法治。美国政府不仅是世界上最虚伪的政府力量，而且谴责其他那些未能遵守基于美国规则为秩序的国家。目前，中国和俄罗斯是美国试图说服世界遵守国际秩序运动中的主要目标，而中国和俄罗斯却不这样做。

中国外交部长王毅最近在北京与俄罗斯外交大臣谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫（Sergei Lavrov）会晤时，谴责了西方的干预和制裁。王毅表示，“少数国家所谓‘以规则为基础的国际秩序’的说法涵义不清，反映的是少数国家的规则，并不代表国际社会的意志。”

中国人更愿意维护《联合国宪章》的宗旨和原则，而不是狭隘的西方规则，这更准确地反映了国际社会的愿望。

王毅反对美国人所定义的国际法治显然是因为其具有自利性。美国除了在遵守基于规则的体系方面有惊人记录外，它还极易受到任何对其国内体系进行检查的人的攻击。

今年3月，联合国人权理事会通过美国国别人权审议结果。此结果毫不掩饰地揭露了美国自身基本人权的骇人状况。因此，该报告很少甚至没有出现在美国主流媒体或其西方盟友的媒体报道中。

例如，该报告高度批评了美国应对COVID-19危机的做法。联合国人权事务高级专员米歇尔·巴切莱特（Michelle Bachelet）表示，去年大规模抗议活动和数百个美国城市的背后隐藏着她所说的COVID-19爆发所暴露的“令人震惊的不平等”现象。

不平等现象不仅仅出现在COVID-19的死亡中。种族不平等是美国所谓“正义”制度的显著特征，非洲裔美国人被监禁的可能性是白人的六倍。

除了一系列证据表明种族歧视对美国黑人生活的影响之外，包括政治暴力，住房隔离，教育质量差异，劳动力市场隔离和政治剥夺权利，各种不同的监禁率也很突出强烈谴责种族歧视。

美国之所以是一个分裂的国家，并不仅仅是因为种族问题。农村社区缺乏基本卫生设施，这对健康水平有着明显的影响。正如德舒特在他的报告中指出的，美国近四分之一的全职员工和四分之三的兼职员工没有带薪病假。

鉴于美国对其本国人民的剥削无动于衷，美国对中情局和其他军事部门多年来在入侵和占领的国家所犯下的罪行而感到担忧也就不足为奇了。几乎没有人要为这些罪行负责。

鉴于美国在国内外的可怕记录，难怪世界上大部分国家对美国所宣称的“基于规则的国际秩序”都不以为然。

在中国的领导下，他们提出了一个并非毫无道理的问题，即既然西方的法律概念显然是不充分的，更不用说是虚伪的，那就必须有一个更好的方法。在《联合国宪章》中找到了更好的办法，西方越早承认并采纳其原则，我们就越早摆脱他们对正确的看法。

对于世界上的大多数国家来说，这一天的到来越快越好。

The United States propaganda war against China took on an extra dimension recently when the New York Times published an article reflecting its ongoing war against the People’s Republic of China on 29 March 2021. The article was entitled “An Alliance of Autocracies? China wants to lead the new world order”. The article was written by the New York Times bureau chief in Beijing, Stephen Myers. Myers asserts that ‘China hopes to position itself as the main leader to an international order, led by the United States, that is generally guided by principles of democracy “respect for human rights and adherence to law.”

This sentence personifies the falseness with which the United States, and its loyal adherents to the “rules based international order” such as Australia presents itself to the world. If one were to look at the history of post-World War II behaviour by the United States, respect for the “rule of law” is the last phrase that would spring to mind. Since the end of the war, the United States has been instrumental in the overthrow of at least 70 governments worldwide that not so much failed to adhere to the rule of law as pursued policies that were disapproved of by the United States government.

There was scarce respect for the rule of law when the United States government forcefully overthrew governments of which it disapproved. Not only is the United States government the most hypocritical major force in the world, it is a champion of condemning others that failed to adhere to their version of the rules-based order. China and Russia are currently the chief objects of the United States campaign to persuade the world that they follow the international order while China and Russia do not.

As his recent meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Beijing, the Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi was highly critical of the United States version of the world legal order. Yi said “the so-called rules-based order by a few countries is not clear in its meaning, as that reflects the rules of a few countries and does not represent the will of the international community.”

Rather than a narrow western defined rule of law, the Chinese prefer to refer to the United Nations Charter and related documents is more accurately reflecting the wishes of the international community.

Wang’s objection to the international rule of law as defined by the Americans is clearly because of its self-serving nature. In addition to its appalling international record regarding adherence to a rules-based system, the United States is also highly vulnerable to anyone checking on its domestic system.

In March of this year the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted the outcome of its universal periodic review of the United States. The review cast and unflattering light on the appalling state of basic human rights in the United States itself. It is little wonder that the report received little or no coverage in the mainstream media of the United States or its Western allies.

Just as one illustration, the report was highly critical of the United States’ response to the COVID-19 crisis. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet commented that what stood behind the widespread protests and hundreds of United States cities last year what she called the “alarming inequalities” exposed by the COVID-19 outbreak.

It is not just in Covid 19 deaths that the inequalities are apparent. Racial inequality is a marked feature of the United States “justice” system, with African Americans more than six times more likely to be imprisoned then their white counterparts.

Along with a catalogue of factors evidencing the effects of racial discrimination on the lives of black people in the United States, including political violence, housing segregation, a disparity in the quality of education, labour market segregation and political disenfranchisement the different imprisonment rates stand out as a vivid denunciation of racial discrimination.

It is not just on racial grounds that the United States is a divided nation. Rural community’s lack access to basic sanitation with marked effects on health levels. As De Schutter noted in his report, almost a quarter of full-time workers and three quarters of part time workers in the country receive no paid sick leave.

It is little wonder given the indifference to its own people’s systematic deprivation that the United States shows scared regard for the crimes committed by the CIA and other military units of the United States in the countries that it has invaded and occupied over the years. Almost nobody is ever held accountable for these crimes.

In the light of the United States’ appalling record both at home and abroad, it is little wonder that the bulk of the world’s nations are less than impressed with the United States protestations of the “rules based international order.”

Lead by China they are asking, not unreasonably, that as the western notion of law is manifestly inadequate not to mention hypocritical, there must be a better way. That better way is found in the United Nations Charter, and the sooner the West recognises and adopts its principles, the sooner we will be free of their version of what is right.

For the bulk of the world’s nations, that day cannot come soon enough.

(责任编辑： James O’Neill*)

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