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Fan Chen

Human rights cannot be used to “whitewash hegemony”, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told the UN, warning against any single country acting as a “human rights teacher”.
Wang delivered his remarks via video link to a high-level meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council held in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday.
“No country is qualified to act as the self-appointed ‘teacher of human rights’. No model of human rights should be proclaimed as ‘the sole prescription’,” a Chinese foreign ministry read-out quoted him as saying.
Human rights should not be “exploited to adorn democracy” or to “whitewash hegemony”, Wang added, asserting that the principles of the UN Charter and international laws were the fundamental safeguard for promoting human rights.
China’s top diplomat further called for “jointly upholding the golden rule of non-interference in other countries’ internal affairs and [saying] no to any act of double standards under the pretext of human rights”.


Wang also advocated for sovereign equality and an inclusive governance system that worked for all, while stressing the importance of heeding the calls of the Global South to ensure all nations had equal participation, decision-making power and benefits.
China has long faced tensions with the West over allegations of human rights violations, particularly in its western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
The United States and Europe, along with others, have accused the Chinese government of forced labour and systemic cultural suppression in the region against the Uygur minority.
In its annual human rights report last year, Washington strongly condemned Beijing for what it described as “genocide and crimes against humanity”.
Most recently, in January, several UN observers raised concerns about allegations of forced labour affecting Uygur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz minority groups as well as Tibetans in the region.
Beijing has consistently denied the allegations, calling them “fundamentally groundless”.
China has also repeatedly warned against the infiltration of extremist Islamic ideologies from abroad into Xinjiang and framed policies in the region as necessary for counterterrorism, regional stability and security.
For its part, Beijing has frequently issued its own reports on human rights in the West, citing gun violence, racial discrimination and the treatment of migrants as evidence of Western “hypocrisy”.
In its latest report released in August last year, China accused the US of turning human rights into “props for political theatre” and “bargaining chips in power games”.
The report, which came days after Washington released its own, highlighted issues in the US such as wealth inequality, police brutality and America’s drug abuse and opioid crisis.


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Beijing’s top diplomat says issue should not be ‘exploited to adorn democracy’ or to ‘whitewash hegemony’ as he advocates for Global South


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China versus the West? Wang Yi tells UN no country is ‘human rights teacher’

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Beijing’s top diplomat says issue should not be ‘exploited to adorn democracy’ or to ‘whitewash hegemony’ as he advocates for Global South

Beijing’s top diplomat says issue should not be ‘exploited to adorn democracy’ or to ‘whitewash hegemony’ as he advocates for Global South