"The fact that there are not “universal values,” Xi Jinping explains, does not mean that there are no “common values” such as peace, development, or justice. However, these common values can and should be interpreted according to different political systems and national traditions. How the common values are interpreted in China or Russia is not the same as in the United States or Europe. Of course, this is the excuse of all totalitarian regimes that refuse to grant to their victims [civil] rights, freedom, and democracy. They claim that these are “Western” values and cannot be applied universally. Xi Jinping’s words are music to the ears of all [mal]dictators in the world, and this is why they support [the People’s Republic of] China at the United Nations every time its abysmally low [civil] rights record is denounced."
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Compiler's Note: If you can and will, imagine a totalitarian sociopolitical order using the term “Westerner” as an insult against all those whom it hates for even discussing or learning about civil rights or natural rights, conscience, reverence for the divine, virtue, and problems with pseudovirtue.
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