China stands against it because it is geopoliticially helpful. They still carry out a cultural genocide against Tibetans and Uyghurs.
Turkey and Indonesia stand against it because that is popular with their population. They still suppress Kurds, Syrians, and Papuans.
And I know why my country is not publicly standing against it. Because they know that with the ties it has to Israel, there are better ways behind closed doors to pressure Israel. If we go publicly against them they will completely turn on us. Do I think that strategy is working? Not really. But trying it isn’t dumb.
China stands against it because it is geopoliticially helpful. They still carry out a cultural genocide against Tibetans and Uyghurs.
Turkey and Indonesia stand against it because that is popular with their population. They still suppress Kurds, Syrians, and Papuans.
And I know why my country is not publicly standing against it. Because they know that with the ties it has to Israel, there are better ways behind closed doors to pressure Israel. If we go publicly against them they will completely turn on us. Do I think that strategy is working? Not really. But trying it isn’t dumb.
Let’s acknowledge that that’s a framing that assigns bad faith to one group of countries and good faith to another, right?
Oh yeah absolutely