{"id":160331,"date":"2015-06-20T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T16:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=160331"},"modified":"2015-06-20T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T16:52:13","slug":"us-lacks-moral-standing-criticize-china-island-building-anlayst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/us-lacks-moral-standing-criticize-china-island-building-anlayst\/","title":{"rendered":"US lacks \u2018moral standing\u2019 to criticize China over island building: Anlayst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The United States has no \u201cmoral standing\u201d to criticize China for its island-building in the South China Sea because America is based on stolen land from its native inhabitants, a political analyst in Beijing says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s reclamation of land on disputed islands in the South China Sea \u201cshould be decided in a fair, international forum, it\u2019s not a question to be decided by the USA,\u201d Said Kim Petersen, co-editor of <em>Dissident Voice<\/em>, an Internet newsletter dedicated to \u201cchallenging the distortions and lies of the corporate press.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe USA has probably the least moral standing to voice any opinion on that, given that the USA is a stolen country, a country that\u2019s built on the denationalization of the indigenous nations,\u201d Petersen said in a phone interview with Press TV on Saturday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a country that stole Hawaii from the Hawaiian people, it\u2019s a country that has some forms of colonialism still ongoing in Guam, (and) in Guantanamo Bay which belongs to Cubans,\u201d he added. \u201cHow can it have a base in Guantanamo Bay and then criticize China for building on unpopulated islets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/20\/416744\/US--stolen-country--China-tensions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has no \u201cmoral standing\u201d to criticize China for its island-building in the South China Sea because America is based on stolen land from its native inhabitants, a political analyst in Beijing says. China&#8217;s reclamation of land on disputed islands in the South China Sea \u201cshould be decided in a fair, international forum, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}