LAST month news website Politico published an extraordinary leaked US government document concerning US foreign policy.
Written for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by his senior policy
adviser Brian Hook, the confidential May 2017 memo advises that “the US
should use human rights as a club against its adversaries, like Iran,
China and North Korea, while giving a pass to repressive allies like the
Philippines, Egypt and Saudi Arabia,” Politico summarised.
“Allies should be treated differently — and better — than
adversaries. Otherwise, we end up with more adversaries, and fewer
allies,” argues Hook.
