IS CHINA REALLY A "THREAT" TO "RULES BASED INTERNATIONAL ORDER"?

The Hyat Report

I am a die-hard capitalist at heart, I love the concept of free-market economy, limited government and a thriving middle class that benefits from a fair and free market. However, lately, United States and its allies have been using the buzzwords like “Protection of Rules- Based International Order”, at times explicitly and sometimes implicitly to express the “challenge” that a strong China might pose to the liberal democracies and their “Rules-Based International Order”- in place since post war era and often phrases like these are used in front of the media to convey how its crucial more than ever before for these countries to work together and face that “challenge”, united. In theory this sounds like a noble cause, for people like me who believe in capitalism, because after all, China is governed by a Communist regime that allows little to no room for values that these liberal democracies supposedly cherish the most, including free-market economy, freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom to peaceful assembly and freedom to practice religion or not.

However, in reality, most of these “liberal democracies” have their own issues with the values that they so profess to cherish, for example, United States and its allies have been critical of China’s crackdown on freedom of speech, freedom of press and freedom of assembly in Hong Kong, whilst at the same time, Julian Assange, who exposed war crimes committed by some of these liberal democracies, currently languishes in a high security prison in the U.K and this prison has been known to have hosted terrorists. The United States along with its allies in June 2021 condemned China’s treatment of its Uyghur population in Xinjiang, one of the signatories to this condemnation was Israel and it is widely known that there have been several United Nations’ resolutions passed against Israel for its treatment of Palestinians that have been living under its occupation since 1967.