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Biden and Asia: Different Views on Human Rights?
May 27, 2021 — John Kamm, chairman and executive director of The Dui Hua Foundation; Yanghee Lee, former U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar; and Theodore Te, human rights attorney and former chief public information officer and assistant court administrator of the Supreme Court of the Philippines engaged in a discussion about the Biden administration and human rights in Asia. Tom Nagorski, Asia Society executive vice president and chief operating officer, moderated the discussion.
The discussion covered a range of topics including the coup in Myanmar, extrajudicial killings in the Philippines under the Duterte regime, prisoners' rights in China, and whether or not the United States has lost credibility as a paragon on human rights. (1 hr., 38 sec.)