Affirming Individual Human Rights Enables Humanity to Flourish

The protection of individual human rights championed by the U.S. has allowed for the unprecedented flourishing of human life and freedoms for the last three quarters of a century. What changed?

March 28, 2024: In January of 2020, China was the first country to enforce COVID-19 public health safety lockdowns and through their influence with the WHO other nations around the world followed, including the United States of America. China also quickly deployed mask mandates and frequent PCR testing of healthy citizens, which the U.S. and other nations also followed.

Fast forward to 2021 and early 2022, some media influencers and experts opined that if America had followed China’s policies more closely, such as stricter lockdowns and mask wearing, America as a whole, “would have likely have been better off.’

It’s important to note, that in December of 2020, military and intelligence agency officials presented a 550+-page document to Congress on the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), China’s military strategies targeting the United States. The report specifically noted that China’s military is manipulating and suppressing information across “civilian information systems (smart devices, social media platforms, news platforms, computers, etc.), likely including those built by Chinese companies.”

China’s military (PLA) desires to manipulate citizens and government leaders of other countries in order to have them, “accept if not praise China’s authoritarian, single-party governance model as a superior alternative to liberal democracy and to export elements of its model, popularizing internationally the norm that power, not rules-based accountability, is a legitimate basis for political authority.”

“The Chinese government is shaping and subverting the international governance system to align with Beijing’s own principles, which are directly opposed to universal values and individual rights. It desires for other countries to accept if not praise its authoritarian, single-party governance model as a superior alternative to liberal democracy and seeks to export elements of its model. If Beijing succeeds in normalizing its views of governance, the result could undermine individual rights around the world.”

Those statements are verbatim from the Executive Summary of the December 2020 Report to Congress: U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.