By comparison to? The USA at least tries and often fails versus just not trying at all. Also, the USA's record on a lot of stuff is really crappy. Why would I want the USA to do more crappy things like support a China brokered deal that ignores human rights?

That is fair. Let me rephrase: we SHOULD also be interested in other things like human rights. It is bad when we fall short in this regard. Both examples you mentioned are good examples.

That's just normal public relations. It wouldn't serve US interests for the US government to openly say to the world, "Oh man, that sucks. Dislike." The truth is that while de-escalating tensions is a good thing, we are also interested in other things like human rights. China brokered this deal by not bringing up human rights violations... because they are human rights violators themselves. If the cost of peace is oppression, then I personally wouldn't consider that uplifting news. I'd like to think others would agree.

Brokered by China. Maybe this sub should be called News for the Naive.

Cowards