HONG KONG, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Many developing countries see "the rules-based international order" as no more than a camouflage for the rich countries to dominate the rest, reported the South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong-based English-language daily.

"Whatever advantages the latter might have been given, they are crumbs compared to the outsized winnings the great powers take home by designing the system, writing the rules and enforcing them to their own advantage, often arbitrarily," wrote Alex Lo, a columnist for the daily.

The West's virtue-signaling looks like hypocrisy at its worst, Lo added.

The once "exorbitant privilege" of the top dog may no longer be enough to stop it from abusing the system so as to deform and rubbish it, Lo said, noting that if its loudest champion is quietly undermining it, the rest may think it hypocritical to demand adherence. Enditem

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