Re:'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's...
by marcosdumay on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @12:25PM
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The UN is for avoiding wars. It has a secondary objective of providing mutual economical gains.
It has a much less preponderant mission of incentivizing the adoption of human rights and democracy, but none of the tools for that. Any effective structure with this goal would be opposed by most of its members (or maybe even nearly all). Strong countries can impose some human rights on weaker ones, and they do use the UN as a forum for that, but China is strong enough for nobody to mess with them.
It has a much less preponderant mission of incentivizing the adoption of human rights and democracy, but none of the tools for that. Any effective structure with this goal would be opposed by most of its members (or maybe even nearly all). Strong countries can impose some human rights on weaker ones, and they do use the UN as a forum for that, but China is strong enough for nobody to mess with them.