Human rights campaigners have no hope of excluding China from getting a seat on the UN Human Rights Counsel, but they are trying at least to reduce the number of votes it will get.

Other international institutions are likewise structured based on the assumptions that governments that disrespect human rights wholesale (not just occasionally in practice, as the US does) will not come to dominate the institutions. But when they do, it is like a Republican gerrymander — it is almost impossible to end their unjust influence.