America's hypocrisy is the gift that keeps on giving for China

Dien Luong is an associate fellow with the media, technology and society program of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore and a doctoral student in communications and media at the University of Michigan.

China has long reveled in tearing into what it sees as the double standards of the U.S., hammering home the message that Washington's domestic and foreign policies betray the principles of freedom, dignity, and human rights it preaches to the rest of the world.