How China’s growing clout helped bump South Korea from Human Rights Council



Analysis How China’s growing clout helped bump South Korea from Human Rights Council ROK’s failed bid to stay on council a blow to human rights accountability as Beijing’s friends take its place Jack GreenbergOctober 17, 2022 SHARE COPY LINK FACEBOOK X LINKEDIN MASTODON China’s Xinjiang Uyghurs in Aug. 2022. \| Image: United Nations Human Rights Office South Korea will no longer have a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) after losing its bid for a second-straight term this month. And its defeat to Bangladesh, the Maldives, Vietnam and Kyrgyzstan from the Asia-Pacific bloc has quickly become political fodder at the National Assembly. The Democratic Party blames Yoon Suk-yeol and attributes the loss on Oct. 11 to his numerous “diplomatic disasters” and foreign policy inexperience. They also blame the administration for failing to invest enough diplomatic capital to secure re-election. From the perspective of Yoon’s People’s Power Party(PPP), the loss was a foregone © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk Group. LATEST ANALYSIS 01Trump’s Alaska LNG claim shows who really runs the US-South Korea alliance 02South Korea’s missile defense push raises new questions over wartime stocks 03South Korea bank hacks expose weak links beyond core financial systems 04Lee-Zelensky feud exposes South Korea’s widening Ukraine policy dilemma 05Lee Jae Myung’s ‘pacemaker’ strategy tests South Korea’s leverage with Trump 06Trump’s Korea investment victory lap masks safeguards Seoul still controls 07North Korean POW dispute tests Seoul-Kyiv trust and future Ukraine policy 08South Korea’s CPTPP push exposes the cost of turning trade gains into consensus

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How China’s growing clout helped bump South Korea from Human Rights Council

ROK’s failed bid to stay on council a blow to human rights accountability as Beijing’s friends take its place

Jack GreenbergOctober 17, 2022

How China’s growing clout helped bump South Korea from Human Rights Council

China’s Xinjiang Uyghurs in Aug. 2022. | Image: United Nations Human Rights Office

South Korea will no longer have a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) after losing its bid for a second-straight term this month. And its defeat to Bangladesh, the Maldives, Vietnam and Kyrgyzstan from the Asia-Pacific bloc has quickly become political fodder at the National Assembly.

The Democratic Party blames Yoon Suk-yeol and attributes the loss on Oct. 11 to his numerous “diplomatic disasters” and foreign policy inexperience. They also blame the administration for failing to invest enough diplomatic capital to secure re-election.

From the perspective of Yoon’s People’s Power Party(PPP), the loss was a foregone

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01Trump’s Alaska LNG claim shows who really runs the US-South Korea alliance
02South Korea’s missile defense push raises new questions over wartime stocks
03South Korea bank hacks expose weak links beyond core financial systems
04Lee-Zelensky feud exposes South Korea’s widening Ukraine policy dilemma
05Lee Jae Myung’s ‘pacemaker’ strategy tests South Korea’s leverage with Trump
06Trump’s Korea investment victory lap masks safeguards Seoul still controls
07North Korean POW dispute tests Seoul-Kyiv trust and future Ukraine policy
08South Korea’s CPTPP push exposes the cost of turning trade gains into consensus

How China’s growing clout helped bump South Korea from Human Rights Council

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