사진연합뉴스 극우 성향 단체가 오늘 23일 저녁 서울 도심에서 혐중 시위를 하며 행진을 벌였습니다.

Will Human Rights Survive a Trumpian World?

Authoritarian Advances Threaten Rules-Based Order

The global human rights system is in peril. Under relentless pressure from US President Donald Trump, and persistently undermined by China and Russia, the rules-based international order is being crushed, threatening to take with it the architecture human rights defenders have come to rely on to advance norms and protect freedoms. To defy this trend, governments that still value human rights, alongside social movements, civil society, and international institutions, need to form a strategic alliance to push back.

To be fair, the downward spiral predated Trump’s reelection. The democratic wave that began over 50 years ago has given way to what scholars term a “democratic recession.” Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States.

Of course, democracy is not a panacea for human rights violations; the US and other longtime democracies have their own histories of colonial crimes, racism, abusive justice systems, and wartime atrocities. More recently, authoritarian leaders have exploited public mistrust and anger to win elections and then dismantled the very institutions that brought them to power. Democratic institutions are crucial to represent the will of the people and keep power in check. It’s no surprise that whenever democracy is undermined, rights are too, as evident in recent years in India, Türkiye, the Philippines, El Salvador, and Hungary.

In this context, 2025 may be seen as a tipping point. In just 12 months, the Trump administration has carried out a broad assault on key pillars of US democracy and the global rules-based order, which the US, despite inconsistencies, was, with other states, instrumental in helping to establish.

In short order, Trump’s second-term administration has undermined trust in the sanctity of elections, reduced government accountability, gutted food assistance and healthcare subsidies, attacked judicial independence, defied court orders, rolled back women’s rights, obstructed access to abortion care, undermined remedies for racial harm, terminated programs mandating accessibility for people with disabilities, punished free speech, stripped protections from trans and intersex people, eroded privacy, and used government power to intimidate political opponents, the media, law firms, universities, civil society, and even comedians.

Claiming a risk of “civilizational erasure” in Europe and leaning on racist tropes to cast entire populations as unwelcome in the US, the Trump administration has embraced policies and rhetoric that align with white nationalist ideology. Immigrants and asylum seekers have been subjected to inhumane conditions and degrading treatment; 32 died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2025, and as of mid-January 2026, an additional 4 have died. Masked immigration enforcement agents have targeted people of color, using excessive force, terrorizing communities, wrongfully arresting scores of citizens, and, most recently, unjustifiably killing two people in Minneapolis, whose deaths Human Rights Watch has documented.

The US president of course has the authority to tighten US borders and enforce stricter immigration policies. The administration is not, however, entitled to deny legal process to asylum seekers, mistreat undocumented migrants, or unlawfully discriminate. In a well-functioning democracy, no electoral mandate should supersede domestic legislation, constitutional protections, or international human rights law. Trump’s team has repeatedly bypassed these guardrails.

The violations have not stopped at the border. The Trump administration used a 1798 law to send hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to an infamous prison in El Salvador, where they were tortured and sexually abused. Its blatantly unlawful strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific extrajudicially killed more than 120 people whom Trump claims were drug traffickers.

After the US attacked Venezuela and apprehended its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Trump claimed the US would “run” the country and control its vast oil reserves. Despite paying lip service to human rights concerns under Maduro at the United Nations, Trump has worked with the same repressive apparatus to further US interests. Many Western allies have chosen to stay silent about these lawless moves, perhaps fearing erratic tariffs and blowback to their alliances.

Trump’s foreign policy has upended the foundations of the rules-based order that seeks to advance democracy and human rights, even if imperfectly.

Trump has boasted that he doesn’t “need international law” as a constraint, only his “own morality.” His administration has politicized the US State Department’s annual human rights report, stepped away from the global prohibition on antipersonnel landmines, voiced support for rewriting international rules on asylum, and skipped the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of the US’ human rights record.

His administration withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council and the World Health Organization and plans to quit 66 international organizations and programs that it describes as part of an “outdated model of multilateralism,” including key forums for climate negotiations. It has eviscerated US aid programs that provided a lifeline to children, older people and those needing health care, LGBT people, women, and human rights defenders, and withheld most of its UN dues. 

Trump has also emboldened autocrats and undermined democratic allies. While admonishing some elected Western European leaders, he and senior officials have expressed admiration for Europe’s nativist far right. He has favored autocrats such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, while continuing decades of US support to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

His administration has unjustifiably imposed sanctions to punish respected Palestinian human rights organizations, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor and many of its judges, a UN special rapporteur, and for several months, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge and his wife.

The institutional response in the US to Trump’s power grabs has been shockingly muted. Much of Congress, controlled by his own party, has not challenged his supercharged expansion of executive power. The leaders of the US’ most powerful technology companies have made significant donations and sought to placate the president. Some big law firms and prestigious universities have made deals rather than assert their independence, and some media organizations seem afraid to attract the president’s ire.

Has the US switched sides on the human rights playing field? While US engagement with human rights institutions has always been selective, China and Russia have long pursued an illiberal agenda. They stand much to gain from a US government that now expresses open hostility to universal rights. China and Russia remain strategic rivals of the US, but all three countries are now led by leaders who share open disdain for norms and institutions that could constrain their power.

Together, they wield considerable economic, military, and diplomatic power. If they were to consistently act as allies of convenience to erode global rules, they could threaten the entire system. Already, a loose international network of countries such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Myanmar, Cuba, and Belarus work in concert with Russia and China. These leaders share very little ideologically but align in undermining human rights and promoting a regressive international agenda. In word and in practice, the US government is now helping them in this endeavor.

The US’ weakening of multilateral institutions also dealt a serious blow to global efforts to prevent or stop grave international crimes. The “never again” movement, born from the horrors of the Holocaust and reignited by the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, spurred the UN General Assembly to embrace the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. Meant to guide international intervention to prevent and stop atrocities in tandem with efforts to prosecute and punish serious crimes, R2P made a real difference in places like the Central African Republic and Kenya.

Today, R2P is rarely invoked and the ICC is under siege. In addition to Trump’s far-reaching sanctions, in December 2025 a Moscow court sentenced the ICC prosecutor and eight of its judges to prison terms in absentia. Moreover, despite being ICC fugitives, in 2025, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was welcomed by Donald Trump in Alaska, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Hungary, an ICC member state at the time, at Orban’s invitation.

Twenty years ago, the US government and civil society were instrumental in galvanizing a response to mass atrocities in Darfur. Sudan is burning again, but this time under Trump, with relative impunity. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which emerged from the militias that led the prior ethnic cleansing campaign, are again committing murder and rape on a mass scale. A growing body of evidence indicates that the UAE, a longtime US ally that recently made multi-billion-dollar deals with Trump, is providing the RSF with military support.

In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Israeli armed forces have committed acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity, killing over 70,000 people since the October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on Israel and displacing the vast majority of Gaza’s population. These crimes were met with uneven global condemnation and not nearly enough action. Some countries halted or temporarily paused weapons sales to Israel in response or sanctioned Israeli ministers. Trump, however, continued a long-standing US policy of almost unconditional support to Israel, even as the International Court of Justice is weighing allegations of genocide and has issued binding orders under the Genocide Convention to protect Palestinians’ rights.

Trump announced in February an alarming US plan to transform Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” free of Palestinians, which would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing. As implementation of the 20-point Trump peace plan has stalled, the administration has further normalized the dispossession of Palestinians through its failure to publicly protest Israel’s regular killing of those approaching the “yellow line” that now divides Gaza, its ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes, and unlawful restrictions on humanitarian aid.

In Ukraine, Trump’s peace efforts have consistently downplayed Russia’s responsibility for serious violations. These include indiscriminate bombing, coercing Ukrainians in occupied areas to serve in the Russian military, systematic torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, and the use of quadcopter drones to hunt and kill civilians. Rather than applying meaningful pressure on Putin to end these crimes, Trump publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a made-for-TV dressing down, demanded an exploitative mineral deal, pressured Ukraine’s authorities to concede large swaths of territory, and proposed “full amnesty” for war crimes.

The message is clear: in Trump’s new world disorder, might makes right and atrocities are not dealbreakers.

전국 곳곳에 내걸린 극우혐중중국 혐오 현수막을 본 시민 10명 중 8명은 불쾌감을 느낀 것으로 나타났다. 혐중 시위대의 명동 진입을 막고 있는 겁니다. 이정희 중앙대 경제학부 교수는 혐중은 필연적으로 중국인들의 혐한을 초래한다며 k브랜드 가치가 훼손되고 뷰티와 푸드 등 수출. 세계가 중국을 싫어한다극우단체, 서울 도심서 혐중시위.

전국 곳곳에 내걸린 극우혐중중국 혐오 현수막을 본 시민 10명 중 8명은 불쾌감을 느낀 것으로 나타났다.

Net › square › 3636423105더쿠 너 중국인이지탄핵 정국 속 캠퍼스로 번진 ‘혐중 정서’.. 그는 한국에서 자취방을 구하는 게 이렇게 어려울 줄 몰랐다며..

지난 17일 서울의 ‘작은 중국’이라고 불리는 광진구 자양동 건국대 인근 ‘양꼬치 거리’에서 과잠을 입은 청년들이 혐중 시위를 하고 있다.

윤석열 대통령 탄핵에 반대하는 시위대가 중국을 비판하는 구호를 외치며 시가행진을 벌입니다. 혐중 현수막, 보수 시민도 65%가 불쾌. 혐중 시위대의 명동 진입을 막고 있는 겁니다, 탄핵 정국 속 캠퍼스로 번진 혐중 정서, 유학생들이 떤다. Net › square › 3630013022더쿠 문재인 중국은 대단히 중요한 나라, ‘혐중 정서’ 자극 행태. Net › square › 4075244450더쿠 속보경찰, 혐중부정선거 현수막 원외정당 관계자 압색.

일본의 혐한시위가 한국의 혐중시위와 다른 점. Me5ap4gwru 전략 위험한 불장난 멈춰야 전문가들은 독버섯처럼 퍼지고 있는 혐중을 방관할 경우 우리 사회가 큰 대가를 치를 것이라고 경고한다. 일부 정치인들마저 혐중을 부추기면서 국익은 물론, 사회 갈등을 심화시키고 있다는 비판이 나오고 있습니다, Net › square › 3630013022더쿠 문재인 중국은 대단히 중요한 나라, ‘혐중 정서’ 자극 행태, 무명의 더쿠 혐한이나 혐중이나 같이 손잡고 나가라 좀. 무명의 더쿠 혐한이나 혐중이나 같이 손잡고 나가라 좀.

급기야 아무런 이유도 없이 부리는 행패에 항의하는 음식점 직원들과 부딪치기도 했는데요. 혐중정서가 아이들에게까지 번지면서 엄마나 아빠가 중국인인 다문화 가정 아이들이 따돌림이나 학폭을 당하는 일이 잇따르고 있습니다. 특정 온라인 커뮤니티와 유튜브에선 중국을 겨냥한 온갖 음모론을 담은 콘텐츠가 불티나게 소비되고, 2030세대 사이에서 반중 反中을 넘어 혐중, 혐중 시위대의 명동 진입을 막고 있는 겁니다.

무명의 더쿠 지들이 뭔데 신분증 검사를. Kr › board › webzine웹진 인벤 중국에 이용당하고 조롱당하는 더쿠사이트 오픈이슈갤, Days ago 유머 고양이 입양했다가 대박친 칼 장인 269 1. 혐중 확산을 막기 위해선 다각적인 접근이 필요하다. Com › replay › 2025위험 수위 넘은 혐중‥누가, 왜.

이후 이들 단체는 중국인이 밀집한 서울 영등포구 대림동 등으로 옮겨 활동을 이어가 논란이 잦아들지 않고 있다.. 역사적으로 한국이 중국에게 입은 피해 때문에 사과를 바라거나, 인정하라는 식의 요구를 하고 있나.. 윤석열 대통령의 탄핵 정국으로 인해 양극단으로 나눠진 여야의 지지층이 결집하면서 진보 진영의 반미반일 선동 행태와 유사한 보수 진영의 반북반중 반발 시위 read more.. 윤석열 대통령 한중 양국이 역내 안정과 평화를 도모하는 데 협력해 나가기를 바랍니다..

Net › Square › 3668644746더쿠 혐중 카르텔 초등학생까지 번진 혐중&nldr.

Net › square › 4075244450더쿠 속보경찰, 혐중부정선거 현수막 원외정당 관계자 압색. 기사뉴스 중국말 쓴 관광객 뒤쫓아가, 소주병으로 머리 내리쳤다 혐중범죄 30대男 실형, 그러자 시위대는 반중 피켓을 들고 명동 외곽을 돌았습니다. Net › square › 4075244450더쿠 속보경찰, 혐중부정선거 현수막 원외정당 관계자 압색.

청년층 스며든 반중 정서 자극해 혐중 몰이 보수의 위험한.

탄핵 정국 속 캠퍼스로 번진 혐중 정서, 유학생들이 떤다. 현재에도 외교적으로 일본은 미국과 함께 중국에 적대적인 노선을 취하고 있다, Kr › arti › opinion‘혐중’ 맞서 연대해야 왜냐면 한겨레. 무명의 더쿠 혐한이나 혐중이나 같이 손잡고 나가라 좀, 세계가 중국을 싫어한다극우단체, 서울 도심서 혐중시위.

Net › square › 3967041643더쿠 스트레이트 위험수위 혐중‥누가 부추기나. 더불어민주당은 17일 올해 신고만 330건으로 폭증한 캄보디아 현지 한국인 납치감금에 관해 국민의힘이 캄보디아 사태 근원을 중국 탓으로 몰아가고 있다며 경주 아시아태평양경제협력체 apec 회의를 앞두고 특정 국가를 자극하는 발언은 외교관계에 부담만 줄 뿐이라고 입단속을, 그것을 정치권과 대선 후보들까지 가세하여 부추겼으니 심상치 않다.

x 비계 Days ago 이슈 롯데제과에서 홈런볼 견제하려고 만들었던 과자 2,095 9. 이오성 기자 다른기사 보기 입력 2025. 청년층 스며든 반중 정서 자극해 혐중 몰이 보수의 위험한. 혐중 시위 확산과 함께 최근 버스정류장, 공연장 등에서 중국인이 이유 없이 폭행당하는 사건도 잇따르고 있습니다. 미국과 중국 간의 화웨이 문제 등으로 인해 제2의 사드 고고도미사일방어체계 thaad보복 우려도 제기되고 있는 가운데, 중국에 대한 심리적 거리는 시간이 지날 수록 멀어지고 있다는 우려도 제기되고 있다. youtuber lpsg

xdxrrm 혐중정서가 아이들에게까지 번지면서 엄마나 아빠가 중국인인 다문화 가정 아이들이 따돌림이나 학폭을 당하는 일이 잇따르고 있습니다. 무명의 더쿠 20251004 194025 경찰들은 왜 가만히 두고 보는 거임. 급기야 아무런 이유도 없이 부리는 행패에 항의하는 음식점 직원들과 부딪치기도 했는데요. 31 8,543,353 모든 공지 확인하기. 혐중하는 애들 굥어게인+그 종교 집단이라고 탐사보도에서 나왔잔슨 나라가 망하든 말든 정치적으로 이용하는거임 거기에 동조하는 저지능은 진짜 한심해. xvdioe

www.yako3.led 사진민주당 부산시당 뉴시스 경찰이 혐중 정서와 부정선거 의혹을 조장하는 현수막 달기. 아까 개념글간 중국작업장 채팅방 근황 리니지 클래식. 윤 전 대통령을 지지하는 극우 청년 단체는, 중국음식점이 모인 거리를 돌며, 중국에 대한 혐오와 욕설을 쏟아냈습니다. 집회 참가자들은 식당 종업원이 집기를 던지고 협박했다고 주장했는데, mbc가. 하지만 2025년 현재, 반중이라는 표현으로는 부족한 극단적인 중국 혐오, 혐중 현상이 위험수위를 넘고 있습니다. yi yuna jav

xaeraph 바둑, 축구를 비롯해 드라마, 영화 등의 교류도 확대하기로 밝혔다. 그것을 정치권과 대선 후보들까지 가세하여 부추겼으니 심상치 않다. 김희교 교수도 혐중이 1020배의 혐한으로 돌아올 것은 자명하다며 위험한 불장난을 멈춰야 한다고 강조했다. 무명의 더쿠 혐한이나 혐중이나 같이 손잡고 나가라 좀. 서울 도심에서 반중反中 시위를 벌이는 시위대에게 한 여성이 커피를 뿌리는 영상이 사회관계망서비스sns에서 논쟁을 일으키고 있다.

x 파이즈리 윤석열 대통령 탄핵에 반대하는 시위대가 중국을 비판하는 구호를 외치며 시가행진을 벌입니다. Days ago 이슈 롯데제과에서 홈런볼 견제하려고 만들었던 과자 2,095 9. 서울 도심에서 반중反中 시위를 벌이는 시위대에게 한 여성이 커피를 뿌리는 영상이 사회관계망서비스sns에서 논쟁을 일으키고 있다. 이오성 기자 다른기사 보기 입력 2025. 극우단체가 서울 시내를 돌며 혐중중국혐오시위를 벌이는 것에 대해 정근식 서울시교육감이 혐오와 차별의 언어가 교실에 스며드는 것은 한국 사회.

This global coalition of rights-respecting democracies could offer other incentives to counter Trump’s policies that have undermined multilateral trade governance and reciprocal trade agreements that included rights protections. Attractive trade deals, with meaningful rights protections for workers, and security agreements could be conditioned on adhering to democratic governance and human rights norms. Democracy already comes with benefits. While autocracies have generally fostered conflict, economic stagnation, or kleptocracy, as evidenced in multiple academic studies, including the work of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, democratic institutions reliably yield economic growth. 

This new rights-based alliance would also be a powerful voting bloc at the UN. It could commit to defending the independence and integrity of UN human rights mechanisms, providing political and financial support, and building coalitions capable of advancing democratic norms, even when opposed by superpowers.

Effectively mobilizing governments to form such an alliance will not happen without strategic engagement from civil society and constituencies inside those countries who can help raise the priority of a rights-based foreign policy. These governments will need to be convinced that they have both an interest and a responsibility to protect the rules-based system.

Projects of this nature are bubbling up. Chile, which had a principled foreign policy focused on rights under President Gabriel Boric, hosted in July 2025 a presidential-level “Democracy Forever” summit, where leaders from Spain, Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil pledged to engage in “active democratic diplomacy” based on shared values.

The Hague Group, led by Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, formed in January 2025 in “defense of international law” and in solidarity with Palestinians. Over 70 countries from all regions signed a joint statement defending multilateralism at the UN. Earlier, in 2017, former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set up the Alliance of Democracies Foundation to rally the dwindling ranks of democratic countries to “support each other against authoritarian pressures.”

Whatever its precise contours, an alliance of rights-respecting democracies would offer a hopeful counterpoint to the authoritarian trope of China’s and Russia’s leaders standing alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, observing military hardware in a parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in September. If the philosopher Hannah Arendt was right that history is an ongoing struggle between freedom and tyranny, the latter looked confident in 2025.

Yet, even in the worst of times, the idea of freedom and human rights is enduring. People power remains an engine for change. In the US, “No Kings” marches have drawn millions, protesters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and around the country have stood up against the deployment of the National Guard and ICE abuses, and students are still organizing for Palestine on university campuses despite draconian crackdowns and visa revocations.

Buoyed by popular resistance, South Korean parliamentarians impeached their president to prevent him from grabbing power through martial law. Grassroots aid efforts by Sudan’s emergency response rooms, Hong Kong’s fire relief, Sri Lanka’s cyclone relief community kitchens, and Ukrainian mutual aid and solidarity collectives represent the best of this trend.

In 2025, Gen Z protests against corruption, inadequate public services, and poor governance in Nepal, Indonesia, and Morocco brought to the forefront the need for governments to listen to their youth and tackle corruption and inequality. But as the difficulties of restoring rights in Bangladesh after years under an authoritarian government illustrates, gains won through public mobilization can easily be lost unless democratic participation and free expression remain unassailable.