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By Yu Sinan, Liu Shiyao, Pang Dan, People’s Daily

The ascender of China’s Chang’e-6 probe lifted off from lunar surface on June 4, carrying samples collected from the moon’s far side, an unprecedented feat in human lunar exploration history.  Now it has entered a preset orbit around the moon.

The probe previously landed at the designated landing area in the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin on the far side of the moon at 6:23 a.m., on June 2.

The lander-ascender combination of the Chang’e-6 probe touched down after reducing its relative speed to zero in 15 minutes, under the precise control of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center.

Chang’e-6 consists of an orbiter, a returner, a lander and an ascender. Since its launch on May 3 this year, it has been staying in orbit for about 30 days.

Before its landing, the lander-ascender combination separated from the orbiter-returner combination that kept flying around the moon.

Apart from making a soft landing on the far side of the moon, Chang’e-6 would also collect lunar soil beyond the moon’s visible face, said Ge Ping, spokesperson for the Chang’e-6 mission.

According to him, the mission involves many engineering innovations, high risks and great difficulty, and manifests the wisdom of scientists.

Landing on the far side of the moon requires choosing the right location first. Compared to the near side of the moon where Chang’e-5 landed, the far side features a more rugged topography. The pre-selected landing area, the SPA Basin, is generally lower in elevation and has a higher density of impact craters, which posed greater challenges for site selection as the terrain’s shadows and obstructions are unfavorable for lighting and surveys.

In order to find an ideal landing site, the development team of Chang’e-6 drew upon previous experience in site selection and established a set of methods tailored for landing on the far side of the moon, said a developer of Chang’e-6 from China Academy of Space Technology (CAST).

For example, researchers utilized 7-meter resolution orthoimages of the entire lunar surface and 20-meter resolution digital elevation models produced from data obtained by the Chang’e-2 probe to identify relatively flat areas with gentle slopes as potential landing sites for Chang’e-6, the developer told People’s Daily.

Since the landing site of Chang’e-6 is on the far side of the moon, the landing process couldn’t be observed from Earth. Even though the probe is capable of autonomous landing, it is crucial to have the ability to monitor real-time data and issue control commands for keeping the “family on Earth” informed about the mission’s progress.

In March this year, China’s Queqiao-2 relay satellite was sent to orbit in advance to ensure that Chang’e-6 would not “get lost” on the far side of the moon, building a bridge for Earth-moon communications.

Two rounds of obstacle avoidance were crucial for the landing of Chang’e-6 on the far side of the moon.

An expert told People’s Daily that under the intelligent and autonomous control of the guidance, navigation and control system, the lander-ascender combination would rapidly adjust its attitude while descending, take photos of and analyze the pre-selected landing area, and avoid large obstacles, thereby selecting the most proper landing site. The system would then order the lander-ascender combination to fly towards the selected area. This is the first round of obstacle avoidance, also known as “general avoidance.”

At a predetermined altitude closer to the lunar surface, the lander-ascender combination would execute a critical short hovering phase, take additional photos of the surface, accurately avoid obstacles, and pinpoint the final landing site. This is the second round of obstacle avoidance, known as “targeted avoidance.” Afterwards, it would descend vertically and slowly.

“Targeted avoidance” is a unique technology developed by China, which enables autonomous operation during the landing process. The successful landing of Chang’e-6 has advanced this technology.

The key to landing is to achieve a smooth touchdown. The landing of the lander-ascender combination would generate considerable impact loads. Therefore, a corresponding buffer mechanism must be designed to ensure the probe does not topple over or sink into the surface. For this purpose, the CAST has customized four lightweight and high-strength “legs” for Chang’e-6.

According to experts, each of the landing legs consists of a main leg, two secondary legs, and a foot pad. Prior to landing, the main and secondary legs, made of a new type of high-strength alloy material with special filling, would work collaboratively to support the body of the probe, transmitting and absorbing impact forces.

After landing, Chang’e-6 transmitted back images of the landing site and began its sample-retrieving operations on the far side of the moon. The retrieving operations adopted two methods of moon sampling, which included using a drill to collect subsurface samples and grabbing samples on the surface with a robotic arm.

It is reported that after completing its work on the lunar surface, Chang’e-6 will embark on its journey back home. It is scheduled to land in a designated area in north China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, thus concluding its trip lasting more than 50 days.

By Huan Yuping, People’s Daily

Security is a common need for countries around the world, but there are always some individuals who, under the guise of safeguarding security, deliberately create risks.

They view the interdependence formed among nations due to economic globalization as a threat and use the pretext of security to create scientific and technological barriers and sever industrial and supply chains, which causes impacts on global economic development and stability. This has raised widespread concerns in the international community.

The mindset of zero-sum game characterized by binary opposition has long been a thing of the past, and a genuinely secure world should be one featuring deep integration and interdependence. Creating division and confrontation with the zero-sum mentality goes against the goal of maintaining security and only leads to collective insecurity.

In 1996, American columnist Thomas Friedman proposed the theory of “Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention,” suggesting that two countries that were sufficiently developed to support a McDonald’s would not fight each other because the benefits brought by economic globalization would outweigh the desire for war.

At that time, economic globalization was widely seen as a positive force beneficial to global development and security. However, today, with the trend of economic globalization, some individuals have developed an unfounded “cooperation phobia,” constantly seeing imaginary threats.

Some politicians from a few countries even openly claimed that modern cars are like “iPhones on wheels” capable of collecting vast amounts of information. “Imagine a world with 3 million Chinese vehicles on the roads of America, and Beijing can turn them off at the same time,” they said, absurdly.

This illogical reasoning has sparked widespread criticism and is seen as trade sanctions and protectionism disguised as national security concerns.

In this world shaped by economic globalization, goods, capital, people, and information flow around the world ceaselessly, and interdependence among nations has become the norm. Viewing the world through the mindset of zero-sum game and baselessly hyping so-called security threats are severely disconnected from realities and deviate from the historical trend of development.

Every country has security needs, but abusing the concept of security will only harm a country’s own security in the long run.

Currently, more and more scholars are warning that the United States is showing signs of falling into a trap of abusing the concept of security. Once obsessed with the so-called absolute security, and arbitrarily expanding the scope of security, the country would incline to closed-door policies and exclusion, resulting in misallocation and waste of development resources. Externally, it is prone to creating “imaginary enemies” and getting caught in zero-sum games, undermining normal international cooperation.

In recent years, a few countries have been aggressively seeking “friendshoring” and pursuing a “small yard, high fence” strategy, continuously abusing the concept of security. They have turned their mindset from “running faster than others” to “running faster by tripping others.”

This approach seriously damages global prosperity and stability.

Past and current experiences show that countries engaging in mutually beneficial cooperation based on market principles not only contribute to each other’s development but also help foster healthy and stable relationships.

Over the past few decades, the international system has maintained overall stability and order, which is to a large extent attributed to the continuously improving mutually beneficial cooperation amidst the tide of economic globalization.

Distorting and undermining mutually beneficial cooperation between countries in the name of so-called security will only exacerbate misunderstandings, erode mutual trust, disrupt international relations, and create security risks. From a long-term perspective, a world influenced by unilateralism and protectionism will be even more insecure.

In today’s world, the interests, prosperity and security of countries are closely intertwined. The world will never return to isolation. When considering security issues in the context of economic globalization, one must maintain an objective and dialectical perspective.

Firstly, it is important to abandon the misconception of absolute security and adhere to the concept of common security. Adopting a double standard of demanding other countries to open up while closing one’s own doors in the name of “de-risking” will only hinder both development and security, and ultimately lead to backfiring.

Secondly, all parties should recognize that seeking security and promoting cooperation are not contradictory, and that absence of cooperation is the biggest risk and lack of development the biggest insecurity. Risks should be reasonably defined and prevented, without equating interdependence with insecurity. Major economies that have a significant impact on the world economy, in particular, should balance security and open development with a rational attitude.

Thirdly, in the face of problems that arise in economic and trade cooperation, it is important to stop turning business relations into political, security or ideological issues. Instead, countries should strengthen dialogue, manage and resolve the issues in accordance with relevant international rules.

For emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, all parties should enhance communication and coordination on reasonable security concerns, effectively safeguarding security and promoting development through global governance based on extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits.

In today’s world, what countries truly need is mutual achievement, rather than zero-sum games. The international community should jointly promote a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, resolutely oppose the attempt to roll back globalization and abuse the concept of security, and oppose all forms of unilateralism and protectionism. This way, people of all countries will be able to share in the benefits of economic globalization and global growth.

By Yu Sinan, Liu Shiyao, Pang Dan, People’s Daily

The ascender of China’s Chang’e-6 probe lifted off from lunar surface on June 4, carrying samples collected from the moon’s far side, an unprecedented feat in human lunar exploration history.  Now it has entered a preset orbit around the moon.

The probe previously landed at the designated landing area in the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin on the far side of the moon at 6:23 a.m., on June 2.

The lander-ascender combination of the Chang’e-6 probe touched down after reducing its relative speed to zero in 15 minutes, under the precise control of the Beijing Aerospace Control Center.

Chang’e-6 consists of an orbiter, a returner, a lander and an ascender. Since its launch on May 3 this year, it has been staying in orbit for about 30 days.

Before its landing, the lander-ascender combination separated from the orbiter-returner combination that kept flying around the moon.

Apart from making a soft landing on the far side of the moon, Chang’e-6 would also collect lunar soil beyond the moon’s visible face, said Ge Ping, spokesperson for the Chang’e-6 mission.

According to him, the mission involves many engineering innovations, high risks and great difficulty, and manifests the wisdom of scientists.

Landing on the far side of the moon requires choosing the right location first. Compared to the near side of the moon where Chang’e-5 landed, the far side features a more rugged topography. The pre-selected landing area, the SPA Basin, is generally lower in elevation and has a higher density of impact craters, which posed greater challenges for site selection as the terrain’s shadows and obstructions are unfavorable for lighting and surveys.

In order to find an ideal landing site, the development team of Chang’e-6 drew upon previous experience in site selection and established a set of methods tailored for landing on the far side of the moon, said a developer of Chang’e-6 from China Academy of Space Technology (CAST).

For example, researchers utilized 7-meter resolution orthoimages of the entire lunar surface and 20-meter resolution digital elevation models produced from data obtained by the Chang’e-2 probe to identify relatively flat areas with gentle slopes as potential landing sites for Chang’e-6, the developer told People’s Daily.

Since the landing site of Chang’e-6 is on the far side of the moon, the landing process couldn’t be observed from Earth. Even though the probe is capable of autonomous landing, it is crucial to have the ability to monitor real-time data and issue control commands for keeping the “family on Earth” informed about the mission’s progress.

In March this year, China’s Queqiao-2 relay satellite was sent to orbit in advance to ensure that Chang’e-6 would not “get lost” on the far side of the moon, building a bridge for Earth-moon communications.

Two rounds of obstacle avoidance were crucial for the landing of Chang’e-6 on the far side of the moon.

An expert told People’s Daily that under the intelligent and autonomous control of the guidance, navigation and control system, the lander-ascender combination would rapidly adjust its attitude while descending, take photos of and analyze the pre-selected landing area, and avoid large obstacles, thereby selecting the most proper landing site. The system would then order the lander-ascender combination to fly towards the selected area. This is the first round of obstacle avoidance, also known as “general avoidance.”

At a predetermined altitude closer to the lunar surface, the lander-ascender combination would execute a critical short hovering phase, take additional photos of the surface, accurately avoid obstacles, and pinpoint the final landing site. This is the second round of obstacle avoidance, known as “targeted avoidance.” Afterwards, it would descend vertically and slowly.

“Targeted avoidance” is a unique technology developed by China, which enables autonomous operation during the landing process. The successful landing of Chang’e-6 has advanced this technology.

The key to landing is to achieve a smooth touchdown. The landing of the lander-ascender combination would generate considerable impact loads. Therefore, a corresponding buffer mechanism must be designed to ensure the probe does not topple over or sink into the surface. For this purpose, the CAST has customized four lightweight and high-strength “legs” for Chang’e-6.

According to experts, each of the landing legs consists of a main leg, two secondary legs, and a foot pad. Prior to landing, the main and secondary legs, made of a new type of high-strength alloy material with special filling, would work collaboratively to support the body of the probe, transmitting and absorbing impact forces.

After landing, Chang’e-6 transmitted back images of the landing site and began its sample-retrieving operations on the far side of the moon. The retrieving operations adopted two methods of moon sampling, which included using a drill to collect subsurface samples and grabbing samples on the surface with a robotic arm.

It is reported that after completing its work on the lunar surface, Chang’e-6 will embark on its journey back home. It is scheduled to land in a designated area in north China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, thus concluding its trip lasting more than 50 days.

By Huan Yuping, People’s Daily

Security is a common need for countries around the world, but there are always some individuals who, under the guise of safeguarding security, deliberately create risks.

They view the interdependence formed among nations due to economic globalization as a threat and use the pretext of security to create scientific and technological barriers and sever industrial and supply chains, which causes impacts on global economic development and stability. This has raised widespread concerns in the international community.

The mindset of zero-sum game characterized by binary opposition has long been a thing of the past, and a genuinely secure world should be one featuring deep integration and interdependence. Creating division and confrontation with the zero-sum mentality goes against the goal of maintaining security and only leads to collective insecurity.

In 1996, American columnist Thomas Friedman proposed the theory of “Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention,” suggesting that two countries that were sufficiently developed to support a McDonald’s would not fight each other because the benefits brought by economic globalization would outweigh the desire for war.

At that time, economic globalization was widely seen as a positive force beneficial to global development and security. However, today, with the trend of economic globalization, some individuals have developed an unfounded “cooperation phobia,” constantly seeing imaginary threats.

Some politicians from a few countries even openly claimed that modern cars are like “iPhones on wheels” capable of collecting vast amounts of information. “Imagine a world with 3 million Chinese vehicles on the roads of America, and Beijing can turn them off at the same time,” they said, absurdly.

This illogical reasoning has sparked widespread criticism and is seen as trade sanctions and protectionism disguised as national security concerns.

In this world shaped by economic globalization, goods, capital, people, and information flow around the world ceaselessly, and interdependence among nations has become the norm. Viewing the world through the mindset of zero-sum game and baselessly hyping so-called security threats are severely disconnected from realities and deviate from the historical trend of development.

Every country has security needs, but abusing the concept of security will only harm a country’s own security in the long run.

Currently, more and more scholars are warning that the United States is showing signs of falling into a trap of abusing the concept of security. Once obsessed with the so-called absolute security, and arbitrarily expanding the scope of security, the country would incline to closed-door policies and exclusion, resulting in misallocation and waste of development resources. Externally, it is prone to creating “imaginary enemies” and getting caught in zero-sum games, undermining normal international cooperation.

In recent years, a few countries have been aggressively seeking “friendshoring” and pursuing a “small yard, high fence” strategy, continuously abusing the concept of security. They have turned their mindset from “running faster than others” to “running faster by tripping others.”

This approach seriously damages global prosperity and stability.

Past and current experiences show that countries engaging in mutually beneficial cooperation based on market principles not only contribute to each other’s development but also help foster healthy and stable relationships.

Over the past few decades, the international system has maintained overall stability and order, which is to a large extent attributed to the continuously improving mutually beneficial cooperation amidst the tide of economic globalization.

Distorting and undermining mutually beneficial cooperation between countries in the name of so-called security will only exacerbate misunderstandings, erode mutual trust, disrupt international relations, and create security risks. From a long-term perspective, a world influenced by unilateralism and protectionism will be even more insecure.

In today’s world, the interests, prosperity and security of countries are closely intertwined. The world will never return to isolation. When considering security issues in the context of economic globalization, one must maintain an objective and dialectical perspective.

Firstly, it is important to abandon the misconception of absolute security and adhere to the concept of common security. Adopting a double standard of demanding other countries to open up while closing one’s own doors in the name of “de-risking” will only hinder both development and security, and ultimately lead to backfiring.

Secondly, all parties should recognize that seeking security and promoting cooperation are not contradictory, and that absence of cooperation is the biggest risk and lack of development the biggest insecurity. Risks should be reasonably defined and prevented, without equating interdependence with insecurity. Major economies that have a significant impact on the world economy, in particular, should balance security and open development with a rational attitude.

Thirdly, in the face of problems that arise in economic and trade cooperation, it is important to stop turning business relations into political, security or ideological issues. Instead, countries should strengthen dialogue, manage and resolve the issues in accordance with relevant international rules.

For emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, all parties should enhance communication and coordination on reasonable security concerns, effectively safeguarding security and promoting development through global governance based on extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits.

In today’s world, what countries truly need is mutual achievement, rather than zero-sum games. The international community should jointly promote a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, resolutely oppose the attempt to roll back globalization and abuse the concept of security, and oppose all forms of unilateralism and protectionism. This way, people of all countries will be able to share in the benefits of economic globalization and global growth.

By Luo Shanshan, People’s Daily

China has introduced a range of pragmatic policies to expand the opening up of the service sector, which have been widely welcomed.

On the morning of May 24, the Bahamian cruise ship “Mediterranean” docked at Tianjin International Cruise Home Port in north China’s Tianjin municipality. Nearly 800 foreign tourists on the ship entered China via the port without filling out entry card or having passport stamps.

It is reported that China enforced a policy allowing visa-free entry of foreign tourist groups aboard cruise ships via cruise ship ports along the country’s coastline.

Tourist groups each consisting of two foreigners or more, and organized or received by Chinese travel agencies, can enter China visa-free on board cruise ships via the cruise ports in 13 Chinese cities.

Apart from the cruise tourism market, cross-border tourism has also been thriving this year.

Statistics showed that during the May Day holiday of 2024, China recorded 3.67 million inbound and outbound tourist trips, including 1.77 inbound trips and 1.89 outbound trips. In 2023, China saw its outbound passenger trips exceed 87 million, and this figure is projected to reach 130 million in 2024, according to a paper published by the China Tourism Academy.

The “two-way flow” of tourists is inseparable from a package of high-level opening-up policies released by China. For a period of time, China has been continuously expanding its visa-free “circle of friends” to better facilitate visiting foreign nationals.

“The visa-free policy is a mutually beneficial measure for China and the global tourism market. More and more countries are granting visa-free access to China, and the economic benefits brought by Chinese tourists can effectively promote the development of local tourism markets. At the same time, the expanding visa-free ‘circle of friends’ also provides more convenience for foreigners coming to China,” said Wang Yalei, an industry analyst with the Ctrip Research Institute.

Currently, the service sector has become a main growth driver for the global economy. Last year, the added value of China’s service sector accounted for 54.6 percent of the country’s GDP. In the first quarter of this year, China’s services trade grew rapidly, with the total imports and exports of services exceeding 1.81 trillion yuan ($2497.96 billion), up 14.7 percent year on year.

To expand the opening up of the service sector, China has managed to facilitate the flow of production factors, continuously improving the convenience for foreigners to work, study and travel in China.

The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in southwest China’s Sichuan province is a popular spot for foreign tourists visiting China. At the gift store of the base, an American tourist surnamed John bought a panda plush toy within just a few seconds, using his overseas bank card.

Payment is important for foreigners working, studying and traveling in China. This March, China’s State Council released a guideline to improve payment services for foreigners, promoting the establishment of necessary software and hardware facilities for accepting foreign bank cards, and advancing the development of contactless payment in a coordinated manner.

China has taken multiple measures to provide convenience for foreigners to work, live and travel in China.

China’s Ministry of Commerce recently compiled A Guide to Working and Living in China as Business Expatriates, covering matters such as residence registration, bank card, social insurance, and transportation.

China’s Ministry of Transport is expediting the popularization of online ticket sales, promoting the application of electronic tickets, and making it convenient for domestic and foreign individuals to purchase tickets online using identity cards, passports, and permanent residence cards for foreigners.

China is pushing for comprehensive opening up of manufacturing and service sectors in a coordinated manner. At the opening ceremony of the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, it proposed to remove all restrictions on foreign investment access in the manufacturing sector. According to the Report on the Work of the Government this year, all market access restrictions on foreign investment in manufacturing will be abolished, and market access restrictions in services sectors, such as telecommunications and healthcare, will be reduced.

This year, in response to the institutional and systemic barriers faced by the service sector in areas such as market access and industry regulation, China has expanded institutional opening up and pushed forward management system reforms to align with high-standard international economic and trade rules.

The General Office of the State Council has issued an action plan to steadily promote high-level opening up and make greater efforts to attract and utilize foreign investment, making a series of deployments for expanding the opening up of the service sector, such as continuously promoting the opening up of the telecommunications and healthcare sectors and allowing wider participation by foreign financial institutions in banking and insurance.

The Ministry of Commerce has rolled out national and pilot free trade zone (FTZ) versions of negative lists for cross-border trade in services to boost opening up.

“The two negative lists uniformly manage market access for cross-border services trade, effectively enhancing the transparency and predictability of cross-border services trade management. This is a major reform of China’s services trade management system,” an official with the ministry noted.

By Zhong Sheng, People’s Daily

China’s State Council Information Office on May 29 released a report on human rights violations in the United States in 2023, revealing the deteriorating human rights situation in the United States with facts and figures.

The report says that civil and political rights have become empty talk in the United States, where there are the chronic disease of racism, growing economic and social inequality, persistent violations of the rights of women and children, and heart-wrenching struggles of undocumented migrants. Besides, American hegemony has created humanitarian crises.

Various human rights problems in the United States not only turned its own human rights essentially into a privilege enjoyed only by a few, but also seriously threatened and hindered the healthy development of the world human rights cause.

Facts provide the most accurate depiction of a country’s human rights situation. When evaluating a country’s human rights record, actions speak louder than words.

Approximately 43,000 people were killed by gun violence in the United States in 2023, averaging 117 deaths per day, and at least 1,247 deaths were attributed to police violence. Ethnic minorities in the United States face systematic, persistent and comprehensive racial discrimination. The gap between rich and poor in the United States has reached its worst level since the Great Depression of 1929. Women and children’s rights in the United States have long been systematically violated, with constitutional provisions for gender equality remaining absent.

Facts have fully proved that human rights are becoming increasingly polarized in the United States. The U.S. Department of State recently released so-called 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, criticizing and making unfounded claims about the human rights situation in nearly 200 countries and regions worldwide, while saying nothing about the United States itself. This is just another case of double standard. The hegemonic, domineering and bullying nature of the United States and its selfishness and hypocrisy are on clear display.

The U.S. politics has been plagued by political polarization and partisan fights, which seriously threatens human rights in the United States.

American scholar Francis Fukuyama said in an article that when a society’s institutions fail to adapt to changing circumstances, sclerosis follows.

Political polarization in the United States is becoming increasingly severe, with issues such as gun control, abortion rights, immigration, and women’s rights becoming bargaining chips in the fierce battles between the two parties.

The constant farces of vetocracy have hindered the U.S. government from effectively safeguarding human rights, leaving the American people deeply disappointed.

According to U.S. research and survey institutions, the U.S. public trust in government has been near historical lows and stood at 16 percent in 2023. From January to December 2023, at most 81 percent and at least 76 percent of Americans expressed dissatisfaction with the way things are going in the country. Besides, 76 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. American democracy, which favors shows over effectiveness and disregards human rights, will inevitably lose its credibility.

Why is the United States, which has long claimed to be a “human rights defender,” unable to bridge its own human rights deficit? A poll by the Pew Research Center well answers this question. According to the organization, 65 percent of the U.S. citizens say most political candidates run for office “to serve their own personal interests.”

American politicians prioritize the interests of parties, constituencies, interest groups, and their own over national and public interests, even going so far as to tear the society apart. They certainly do not care about the human rights of ordinary citizens.

For decades, the United States has pursued hegemony, unilateralism, and power politics, and abused force and unilateral sanctions, causing serious humanitarian consequences.

A research report released in May 2023 by Brown University’s “Costs of War” project website reveals that in the theaters of war where the United States conducted overseas “counter-terrorism” operations following the 9/11 attacks, the total death toll ranges from at least 4.5 to 4.7 million people.

Extensive “proxy forces” operations by the United States undermine social stability and violate the human rights of other nations. Continuous delivery of weapons such as cluster munitions to other countries exacerbates regional tensions and armed conflicts, resulting in a large number of civilian casualties and severe humanitarian crises.

The United States’ disregard for the tens of thousands of civilian casualties in Gaza and its repeated vetoing of the United Nations Security Council’s efforts to push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza is a clear demonstration of the country’s disregard for human rights and its trampling upon them.

The hypocrisy of the United States seeking hegemony under the disguise of protecting human rights has long been laid bare.

The country should seriously examine the fundamental defects and malpractices of its own political system, and safeguard human rights in a practical manner, rather than continuing pointing fingers at other countries as a “human rights lecturer,” while turning a blind eye to its own dismal human rights record.

It should stop interfering in other country’s internal affairs, stop infringing on the human rights of other countries, and stop exporting conflicts and turmoil.

(Zhong Sheng is a pen name often used by People’s Daily to express its views on foreign policy and international affairs.)