Chinese state media on Tuesday pounced on U.S. shipments of cluster munitions to Ukraine as proof the American-led “rules-based international order” is just a “mafia-style” hypocritical racket.
After a good deal of whining about the alleged hypocrisy of America giving China a hard time about brutal political repression, bloody massacres, forced labor, and genocide, the state-run Global Times pounced on the Biden administration for helping Ukraine commit prospective war crimes:
In February 2022, then White House press secretary Jen Psaki called the use of cluster bombs a “war crime.” A year later, the US altered its “rules” and decided to send these cluster bombs to Ukraine.
The rules-based order suppresses anything that challenges US hegemony, such as China’s rise. Consequently, the US believes it is “righteous” to impose unilateral sanctions or export controls on China. But when China introduced its own set of export control rules on gallium and…
