<story><title>China congress: BBC team forced to sign confession</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39137293</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krona</author><text>&amp;gt; 2) Stop US violations of human rights (gitmo)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Whataboutism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Whataboutism&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>chrischen</author><text>To admonish, you&amp;#x27;d have to
1) Stop buying Chinese made products
2) Stop US violations of human rights (gitmo)&lt;p&gt;Frankly, without doing this, you&amp;#x27;d never be able to admonish and have it carry any real weight with Chinese policy makers. They&amp;#x27;d just see a black pot calling out the kettle.</text></item><item><author>phreack</author><text>The current state of human rights in China, and its utter, utter lack of admonition by world leaders due to their dependence on their economy is to me one of the greatest tragedies of today.&lt;p&gt;I truly don&amp;#x27;t know what could be done to help free speech prosper there as it should.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>k-mcgrady</author><text>The OP is not invoking whataboutism. It&amp;#x27;s actually an important point. If the US (or any other western country) tries to admonish China there are plenty of human rights violations in our own countries which China will come back with. The point is that they will be able to engage in whataboutism. In global politics hypocrisy (why do we need to call it whataboutism?) is going to come back to bite you.</text></comment>
<story><title>China congress: BBC team forced to sign confession</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39137293</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krona</author><text>&amp;gt; 2) Stop US violations of human rights (gitmo)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Whataboutism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Whataboutism&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>chrischen</author><text>To admonish, you&amp;#x27;d have to
1) Stop buying Chinese made products
2) Stop US violations of human rights (gitmo)&lt;p&gt;Frankly, without doing this, you&amp;#x27;d never be able to admonish and have it carry any real weight with Chinese policy makers. They&amp;#x27;d just see a black pot calling out the kettle.</text></item><item><author>phreack</author><text>The current state of human rights in China, and its utter, utter lack of admonition by world leaders due to their dependence on their economy is to me one of the greatest tragedies of today.&lt;p&gt;I truly don&amp;#x27;t know what could be done to help free speech prosper there as it should.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>So, my sins don&amp;#x27;t matter, let&amp;#x27;s ALWAYS focus on the other side&amp;#x27;s sins.&lt;p&gt;AKA my country, right or wrong.&lt;p&gt;AKA, refusal to accept that value judgements are relative, not god given absolutes.&lt;p&gt;AKA, priority (let&amp;#x27;s focus on X and only X now) without actually prioritizing (let&amp;#x27;s compare to see if X is actually the major offender we should be focusing on)</text></comment>