11/11/2018

Mind your language: how words are weaponised when discussing human rights and China

Originally published by the Hong Kong Free Press on 10/11/2018. 

Last month, American Vice-President Mike Pence gave a speech at the Hudson Institute which has been touted as signalling the biggest shift in US-China policy since Nixon met Mao.

Hyperbolic analysis, no doubt. The speech identified problems but did not flesh out Washington’s new approach to Sino-American relations. Nevertheless, the speech has produced a flurry of “new Cold War” pieces across the media.

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