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After 22 (mostly western) countries called on China to halt the mass detention of Uighurs in Xinjiang at the U.N. Human Rights Council, China rounded up 37 countries to sign a counter letter, supporting the camps - so how do China's 37 human rights crusaders stack up?
Here's where China's 37 human rights 'supporters' fall on Freedom House's annual free country ranking (hint - bottom of the list is bad) freedomhouse.org/report/freedom… 
here's where they fall on Cato Institute's most recent human freedom index object.cato.org/sites/cato.org…
Here's where they fall on Reporter's Without Borders press freedom list rsf.org/en/ranking_tab…
(You know you're really scraping the bottom of the human rights bucket when you're plumping the numbers with North Korea, Syria and *both* Congos)
As a side note - here's how many of them are top Belt and Road debtors to China by debt-to-GDP ratio, from this month's very detailed Kiel Working Paper ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Date…
In summary, these are the supporters of China's Uyghur concentration camps. This is the human rights vision that China is using its influence to push to the world. When China says it doesn't impose ethical values on the countries it invests in - this is what it means.
Complete 37 here: (this list is so cursed that Amal Clooney has agreed to represent the word doc it was screenshotted from)
