United States foreign policy has frequently criticized adversary nation for committing atrocities. In China, an estimate one million Muslim Uighurs are kept in concentration camp-like conditions with the goal of turning them into good Chinese communists. Not very different from what the Canadian government in conjunction with the Roman Catholic Church did to thousands of indigenous children in schools resembling prison orphanages. And in the United States the treatment of indigenous peoples has not been very different. Americans cloak it in the missionary movement, a forced effort to obliterate Native American culture and language. Do High School Students still read about the Trail of Tears or, for that matter, the prison cages at "Gitmo" that may never be empty despite President Obama's pledge many years ago.

Americans have a bad habit of criticizing  other nations about their internal affairs that may well be horrendous. But we have and continue to do the same. Where was the Congressional outcry over the events in Myra mar (formerly Burma)?  Why didn't Nancy Pelosi fly into Naypyidaw? She seems to appear at dangerous war zones such as Kiev and her contemplated flight to Taiwan, enraging the Chinese leadership. 

In short, American have no monopoly when it comes to championing the cause of freedom, integrity, and justice. We water boarded Filipino soldiers early in the 20th Century during the Filipino War, an act TR Roosevelt at first approved. 

America is no longer a knight on shining armor. That armor has been tarnished. And there are many many other examples of US policy not in tune with our Constitutional freedoms. And it wasn't always a matter of national security. How many conflicts could have been averted? Vietnam? Korea? Iraq? 

We need to play with China honestly. American policy toward Taiwan always maintained that it was not under the sphere of protection of the US or the so-called nuclear umbrella. That culminated with the Taiwan Relations Act (April 10, 1979). There is no guarantee of intervention. We sent the wrong message regarding Korea; President Johnson used the Gulf of Tonkin Resolutions to hoodwink the Congress and the American population in of to justify war in Vietnam.When Eisenhower was president there was talk if using atomic bombs in the Taiwan Straits. 

But this is 2022 and the world has dramatically changed. And we have no leaders of stature other than Trump-like Fascists and red-neck types that would easily double as brown shirts.