The speaker says 9/11 and Saudi human-rights abuses damaged U.S.-Saudi relations, making it harder for Saudi Arabia to get America to fight Iran.
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Human rights
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...created he can only be summoned because his reaction is so human right okay it's very hard to make something like this up you..."
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Jiang argues that East Asia's biotechnology edge is not primarily cultural comfort with biotech but weaker protection for human dignity and human rights than he believes exists in the West.
Alexander says the United States applies human-rights concern selectively, ignoring the destruction of Christian communities in places like Iraq while suddenly foregrounding persecution in Nigeria when it suits U.S. purposes.
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"...is that there isn't as much respect for human dignity and human rights as there is in the Western world so I'll give an..."
"...sense that the United States has this unbelievably selective approach to human rights violations so uh Christian communities across the Middle East as we..."
"The first thing it learned is that if it wants to defeat their enemies, the Houthis, the Syrians, and the Iraqis, they also need..."
"...Saudi Arabia. Americans also knew that there were a lot of human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia. The other thing that happened is in..."
"...created he can only be summoned because his reaction is so human right okay it's very hard to make something like this up you..."
"they have as a human right all right so let's carry let's kill this further okay we're trying to figure out what the difference..."
"...live in a democracy that that the Empire was about spreading human rights around the world and then when Empire declines um it's just..."
"...in their best interest it's that simple okay no morality no human rights no sovereignty all right okay so try doesn't care who controls..."
"...cold and they are like, no, no, no, China is terrible, human rights, this and that. And then, I think that all these Western..."
"...happen in China, you would need to have people who respected human rights, individual liberty, who had empathy. Who believed in rule of law...."
"Trade. With. China. Because. Of. China's. Human. Rights. Record. And. Bill. Clinton. During. NAFTA. And. He. Gets. Elected. And. He. Does. The. Complete. Opposite...."
"...be a good trading partner because of China's blatant abuse of human rights. People forget all this. Okay? The Democrats were the polar opposite..."
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