4363 - The West’s hypocritical double standards - Asia Times
I still vividly remember my dean at the time, Kishore Mahbubani, an internationally renowned thinker and former president of the United Nations Security Council, repeatedly sharing his collected examples of the West’s double standards on human rights, including numerous cases in the Middle East, Asia, Latin American and Africa. In his opinion, the reason behind such double standards was that the West will take a moral stand only when its fundamental interests are not affected. That has unfor...