As for the rights to food, shelter, and clothing (as enshrined in the UN Declaration of Human Rights) the United States has never recognized any of them as such (having refused to sign the enacting protocols). According to all U.S. administrations such "rights" are merely "aspirations."
Priorities in socialist countries such as China and Cuba are different. For them the rights to food, shelter, clothing, education, health care, and jobs hold primacy of place. Freedom of press, speech, and religion, as well as voting rights are dispensable as long as those preferred rights under siege.
I only wish Greenwald and Madhubani had made those distinctions. It would have helped the audience understand that indeed China does not respect human rights, while the United States does.
But (even more importantly for purposes of critical thinking in this country) listeners would also have understood that China indeed respects human rights while the United States does not.
It is therefore unseemly for westerners to beat China with the human rights club. Too bad that Greenwald and Madhubani didn't recognize that impropriety.
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