Huang Jinrong

 

China

 

The U.S. had exerted great influence on the emergence and development of international human rights concept and system, but it has never genuinely embraced the UN human rights since the 1950s. It strongly resists the application of international human rights treaties in the U.S., while “fervently” advocating “universal human rights” all over the world. Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. has pursued double standard, instrumentalism and interventionism on human rights to the extreme. This view on human rights does nobody any good and provokes tremendous threat to the effective governance of global human rights. Only by seeing through and fighting against the conceit and arbitrariness of the U.S.-style view on human rights will the global human rights governance based on a community with a shared future for mankind have the hope to start a virtuous circle. 

 

I. Features of U.S.-Style View on Human Rights
 

II. Exceptionalism Root and Adverse Impact of U.S.-Style View on Human Rights
 

III. Serious Threat of U.S.-Style View on Human Rights to Global Human Rights Governance