China ramps up campaign to redefine 'human rights'

[DavidsSling]

China is responding to criticism of its rights record with an increasingly strong counter-narrative, which emphasises security and economic development over civil and political freedoms.

BEIJING: China is ramping up a global campaign to promote its own vision of human rights, inviting the likes of North Korea and Syria to a forum on the topic and drafting other countries to back its policies at the UN.

Western nations have condemned China's rights record, including a security crackdown that has detained an estimated one million mostly Muslim minorities in re-education camps in northwest Xinjiang region.

China is responding with an increasingly strong counter-narrative, which emphasises security and economic development over civil and political freedoms.

"The people of each country all have the right to decide for themselves their human rights development path," Chinese vice foreign minister Ma Zhaoxu told delegates at a summit on the issue this week.

Attendees at the "South-South human rights forum" included representatives from North Korea, Pakistan and Syria -- three countries with their own chequered human rights records.

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One of the speakers at the forum was a political adviser to President Bashar al-Assad, who has been accused of a series of chemical attacks and indiscriminate bombings of civilian targets in Syria's civil war.

"I believe China can, with the help of all developing countries, redefine human rights," Bouthaina Shaaban said in a speech that blasted Western countries for wanting to "create all of us in their own image".

Shaaban's comments echoed China's fiery responses to allegations of human rights abuses, which it says are used to undermine the country's sovereignty.

Beijing's global push seeks "to counter criticisms on its failure to respect international human rights standards", Amnesty International researcher Patrick Poon told AFP.

- Rights with Chinese-ness -

China's response to a recent barrage of international condemnation over its mass detention of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang shows its efforts to frame development and security as the most important human rights.

After initially denying the existence of detention camps, Beijing acknowledged it had opened "vocational education centres" aimed at preventing extremism after years of unrest in the region.

English-language state broadcaster CGTN last week released a documentary series on deadly attacks blamed on religious extremists and separatists to defend China's policies in Xinjiang.

It followed the leak of official documents describing how authorities run the internment camps and the US House of Representatives passing the Uighur Act of 2019 to target Chinese officials with sanctions.

The footage includes graphic images of a car ramming into a crowd at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 2013 and a mass knife attack at a train station in Kunming in southwest China that left 31 dead in 2014.

"The most fundamental human right is the right to a safe life, and only by ensuring people's safety can human rights be protected," the official Xinhua news agency said in a commentary last week.

The documentaries reinforce the narrative that "Uighurs are discontented because they don't have the proper economic opportunities," Hong Kong-based political analyst Willy Lam told AFP.

"The main purpose (of the crackdown) is suppression of the political aspirations of the Uighurs, but they are trying to put an economic spin on this," he added.

A September white paper by the government called poverty "the biggest obstacle to fulfilling the human rights of the Chinese people," and emphasised that China had lifted hundreds of millions of people out of absolute poverty since the 1970s.

- Diplomatic push -

China's efforts to redefine human rights have been gaining momentum in international forums.

Beijing introduced a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council last year that "gutted procedures to hold countries accountable for human rights violations, suggesting 'dialogue' instead," Human Rights Watch researcher Maya Wang told AFP.

In October, 23 nations backed a British statement at the UN condemning China's human rights record in Xinjiang.

But China's allies countered with a statement of their own that won even broader support, with some 54 nations backing a text that heaped effusive praise on Beijing's "remarkable achievements in the field of human rights".

https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1815339/china-ramps-up-campaign-to-redefine-human-rights#cxrecs_s

But that's ok Muslims don't care, they just want to bury their heads in shit.

 

[Lincoln]

China is responding to criticism of its rights record with an increasingly strong counter-narrative, which emphasises security and economic development over civil and political freedoms.

BEIJING: China is ramping up a global campaign to promote its own vision of human rights, inviting the likes of North Korea and Syria to a forum on the topic and drafting other countries to back its policies at the UN.

Western nations have condemned China's rights record, including a security crackdown that has detained an estimated one million mostly Muslim minorities in re-education camps in northwest Xinjiang region.

China is responding with an increasingly strong counter-narrative, which emphasises security and economic development over civil and political freedoms.

"The people of each country all have the right to decide for themselves their human rights development path," Chinese vice foreign minister Ma Zhaoxu told delegates at a summit on the issue this week.

Attendees at the "South-South human rights forum" included representatives from North Korea, Pakistan and Syria -- three countries with their own chequered human rights records.

• The 7-decade battle for universal human rights
• China's cryptocurrency crackdown
• Chinese TV pulls Arsenal match after Ozil's Uighur comments

One of the speakers at the forum was a political adviser to President Bashar al-Assad, who has been accused of a series of chemical attacks and indiscriminate bombings of civilian targets in Syria's civil war.

"I believe China can, with the help of all developing countries, redefine human rights," Bouthaina Shaaban said in a speech that blasted Western countries for wanting to "create all of us in their own image".

Shaaban's comments echoed China's fiery responses to allegations of human rights abuses, which it says are used to undermine the country's sovereignty.

Beijing's global push seeks "to counter criticisms on its failure to respect international human rights standards", Amnesty International researcher Patrick Poon told AFP.

- Rights with Chinese-ness -

China's response to a recent barrage of international condemnation over its mass detention of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang shows its efforts to frame development and security as the most important human rights.

After initially denying the existence of detention camps, Beijing acknowledged it had opened "vocational education centres" aimed at preventing extremism after years of unrest in the region.

English-language state broadcaster CGTN last week released a documentary series on deadly attacks blamed on religious extremists and separatists to defend China's policies in Xinjiang.

It followed the leak of official documents describing how authorities run the internment camps and the US House of Representatives passing the Uighur Act of 2019 to target Chinese officials with sanctions.

The footage includes graphic images of a car ramming into a crowd at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 2013 and a mass knife attack at a train station in Kunming in southwest China that left 31 dead in 2014.

"The most fundamental human right is the right to a safe life, and only by ensuring people's safety can human rights be protected," the official Xinhua news agency said in a commentary last week.

The documentaries reinforce the narrative that "Uighurs are discontented because they don't have the proper economic opportunities," Hong Kong-based political analyst Willy Lam told AFP.

"The main purpose (of the crackdown) is suppression of the political aspirations of the Uighurs, but they are trying to put an economic spin on this," he added.

A September white paper by the government called poverty "the biggest obstacle to fulfilling the human rights of the Chinese people," and emphasised that China had lifted hundreds of millions of people out of absolute poverty since the 1970s.

- Diplomatic push -

China's efforts to redefine human rights have been gaining momentum in international forums.

Beijing introduced a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council last year that "gutted procedures to hold countries accountable for human rights violations, suggesting 'dialogue' instead," Human Rights Watch researcher Maya Wang told AFP.

In October, 23 nations backed a British statement at the UN condemning China's human rights record in Xinjiang.

But China's allies countered with a statement of their own that won even broader support, with some 54 nations backing a text that heaped effusive praise on Beijing's "remarkable achievements in the field of human rights".

https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1815339/china-ramps-up-campaign-to-redefine-human-rights#cxrecs_s

But that's ok Muslims don't care, they just want to bury their heads in shit.

Although I feel for them and have anger towards the Chinese government for what they are doing, I have an equal amount of anger towards people like you who are using a serious case of human rights for their own narrative building and interests.

As an Israeli, you're going to lecture on human rights now?

 

[gambit]

Anything can be redefined and that includes human rights. The issue is which version of 'human rights' will be more attractive than other versions.

 

[ARMalik]

China has the right to ban any illiterate di.khead from its screen. It is impressive to see that they have so much control over their media, unlike the rubbish that goes on in countries like Pakistan. Pakistan needs to control its media cause it is being used as Hybrid war tool against Pakistan and its people.

 

[fisher1]

This is why atheists have no morals and i find it stupid when an atheist attacks religions.Their morals, their human rights, their right and wrong changes based on whoever has authority over them.

Divine law never changes, the rights God has given to men are set in stone.

China should change its own definition of human rights in its own country. Don't involve Muslim nations, our human rights are given to us by Islam and they're unchangeable.

 

[OIO]

China is responding to criticism of its rights record with an increasingly strong counter-narrative, which emphasises security and economic development over civil and political freedoms.

BEIJING: China is ramping up a global campaign to promote its own vision of human rights, inviting the likes of North Korea and Syria to a forum on the topic and drafting other countries to back its policies at the UN.

Western nations have condemned China's rights record, including a security crackdown that has detained an estimated one million mostly Muslim minorities in re-education camps in northwest Xinjiang region.

China is responding with an increasingly strong counter-narrative, which emphasises security and economic development over civil and political freedoms.

"The people of each country all have the right to decide for themselves their human rights development path," Chinese vice foreign minister Ma Zhaoxu told delegates at a summit on the issue this week.

Attendees at the "South-South human rights forum" included representatives from North Korea, Pakistan and Syria -- three countries with their own chequered human rights records.

• The 7-decade battle for universal human rights
• China's cryptocurrency crackdown
• Chinese TV pulls Arsenal match after Ozil's Uighur comments

One of the speakers at the forum was a political adviser to President Bashar al-Assad, who has been accused of a series of chemical attacks and indiscriminate bombings of civilian targets in Syria's civil war.

"I believe China can, with the help of all developing countries, redefine human rights," Bouthaina Shaaban said in a speech that blasted Western countries for wanting to "create all of us in their own image".

Shaaban's comments echoed China's fiery responses to allegations of human rights abuses, which it says are used to undermine the country's sovereignty.

Beijing's global push seeks "to counter criticisms on its failure to respect international human rights standards", Amnesty International researcher Patrick Poon told AFP.

- Rights with Chinese-ness -

China's response to a recent barrage of international condemnation over its mass detention of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang shows its efforts to frame development and security as the most important human rights.

After initially denying the existence of detention camps, Beijing acknowledged it had opened "vocational education centres" aimed at preventing extremism after years of unrest in the region.

English-language state broadcaster CGTN last week released a documentary series on deadly attacks blamed on religious extremists and separatists to defend China's policies in Xinjiang.

It followed the leak of official documents describing how authorities run the internment camps and the US House of Representatives passing the Uighur Act of 2019 to target Chinese officials with sanctions.

The footage includes graphic images of a car ramming into a crowd at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 2013 and a mass knife attack at a train station in Kunming in southwest China that left 31 dead in 2014.

"The most fundamental human right is the right to a safe life, and only by ensuring people's safety can human rights be protected," the official Xinhua news agency said in a commentary last week.

The documentaries reinforce the narrative that "Uighurs are discontented because they don't have the proper economic opportunities," Hong Kong-based political analyst Willy Lam told AFP.

"The main purpose (of the crackdown) is suppression of the political aspirations of the Uighurs, but they are trying to put an economic spin on this," he added.

A September white paper by the government called poverty "the biggest obstacle to fulfilling the human rights of the Chinese people," and emphasised that China had lifted hundreds of millions of people out of absolute poverty since the 1970s.

- Diplomatic push -

China's efforts to redefine human rights have been gaining momentum in international forums.

Beijing introduced a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council last year that "gutted procedures to hold countries accountable for human rights violations, suggesting 'dialogue' instead," Human Rights Watch researcher Maya Wang told AFP.

In October, 23 nations backed a British statement at the UN condemning China's human rights record in Xinjiang.

But China's allies countered with a statement of their own that won even broader support, with some 54 nations backing a text that heaped effusive praise on Beijing's "remarkable achievements in the field of human rights".

https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1815339/china-ramps-up-campaign-to-redefine-human-rights#cxrecs_s

But that's ok Muslims don't care, they just want to bury their heads in shit.

China should quit such shithole organization, don't pay for it.

 

[Attila the Hun]

This is why atheists have no morals and i find it stupid when an atheist attacks religions.Their morals, their human rights, their right and wrong changes based on whoever has authority over them.

Divine law never changes, the rights God has given to men are set in stone.

China should change its own definition of human rights in its own country. Don't involve Muslim nations, our human rights are given to us by Islam and they're unchangeable.

What do you think about Muslim nations that beg for money from China?

 

[thewayoftheworld]

This is why atheists have no morals and i find it stupid when an atheist attacks religions.Their morals, their human rights, their right and wrong changes based on whoever has authority over them.

Divine law never changes, the rights God has given to men are set in stone.

China should change its own definition of human rights in its own country. Don't involve Muslim nations, our human rights are given to us by Islam and they're unchangeable.

Atheist derived their moral foundation through compassion of human experience, not some fear of an imagine god My experiences have been that most relgious people are deep down hypocrite. Islam is cruel to deny people their 1 life to live without the burden of religious dogma and restrictions. Those who are not into Islam dare not denounce it for fear of death. Is that sound moral to you?

 

[Chhatrapati]

As an Israeli, you're going to lecture on human rights now?

Being an Israeli make them lesser Humans?

 

[fisher1]

Atheist derived their moral foundation through compassion of human experience, not some fear of an imagine god My experiences have been that most relgious people are deep down hypocrite. Islam is cruel to deny people their 1 life to live without the burden of religious dogma and restrictions. Those who are not into Islam dare not denounce it for fear of death. Is that sound moral to you?

LOL

Compassion of human experience lol.

The Holy Quran is the undeniable proof of God's existence among other signs and the Quranic challenge hasn't been refuted once in 1400 years ago. So don't give your opinions as facts.

Just because you don't believe in something doesn't make it any less true.

Islam frees people but this is something only people who have experienced life can understand.

What do you think about Muslim nations that beg for money from China?

What does that have to do with my comment on morality?

 

[DavidsSling]

What do you think about Muslim nations that beg for money from China?

The question should be "and let their women be raped by China and beg China for money".

 

[Attila the Hun]

LOL

Compassion of human experience lol.

The Holy Quran is the undeniable proof of God's existence among other signs and the Quranic challenge hasn't been refuted once in 1400 years ago. So don't give your opinions as facts.

Just because you don't believe in something doesn't make it any less true.

Islam frees people but this is something only people who have experienced life can understand.



What does that have to do with my comment on morality?

The Chinese pay Muslims money to keep silent on the Uiyghurs and other Muslims in China being tortured in "educational camps".
Are they good or bad as Atheists? Many Atheist see what China is doing is wrong , just wanted you to know that.

The question should be "and let their women be raped by China and beg China for money".

It's sad. but I not lost all hope on these Muslims.

 

[Sheikh Rauf]

China is responding to criticism of its rights record with an increasingly strong counter-narrative, which emphasises security and economic development over civil and political freedoms.

BEIJING: China is ramping up a global campaign to promote its own vision of human rights, inviting the likes of North Korea and Syria to a forum on the topic and drafting other countries to back its policies at the UN.

Western nations have condemned China's rights record, including a security crackdown that has detained an estimated one million mostly Muslim minorities in re-education camps in northwest Xinjiang region.

China is responding with an increasingly strong counter-narrative, which emphasises security and economic development over civil and political freedoms.

"The people of each country all have the right to decide for themselves their human rights development path," Chinese vice foreign minister Ma Zhaoxu told delegates at a summit on the issue this week.

Attendees at the "South-South human rights forum" included representatives from North Korea, Pakistan and Syria -- three countries with their own chequered human rights records.

• The 7-decade battle for universal human rights
• China's cryptocurrency crackdown
• Chinese TV pulls Arsenal match after Ozil's Uighur comments

One of the speakers at the forum was a political adviser to President Bashar al-Assad, who has been accused of a series of chemical attacks and indiscriminate bombings of civilian targets in Syria's civil war.

"I believe China can, with the help of all developing countries, redefine human rights," Bouthaina Shaaban said in a speech that blasted Western countries for wanting to "create all of us in their own image".

Shaaban's comments echoed China's fiery responses to allegations of human rights abuses, which it says are used to undermine the country's sovereignty.

Beijing's global push seeks "to counter criticisms on its failure to respect international human rights standards", Amnesty International researcher Patrick Poon told AFP.

- Rights with Chinese-ness -

China's response to a recent barrage of international condemnation over its mass detention of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang shows its efforts to frame development and security as the most important human rights.

After initially denying the existence of detention camps, Beijing acknowledged it had opened "vocational education centres" aimed at preventing extremism after years of unrest in the region.

English-language state broadcaster CGTN last week released a documentary series on deadly attacks blamed on religious extremists and separatists to defend China's policies in Xinjiang.

It followed the leak of official documents describing how authorities run the internment camps and the US House of Representatives passing the Uighur Act of 2019 to target Chinese officials with sanctions.

The footage includes graphic images of a car ramming into a crowd at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 2013 and a mass knife attack at a train station in Kunming in southwest China that left 31 dead in 2014.

"The most fundamental human right is the right to a safe life, and only by ensuring people's safety can human rights be protected," the official Xinhua news agency said in a commentary last week.

The documentaries reinforce the narrative that "Uighurs are discontented because they don't have the proper economic opportunities," Hong Kong-based political analyst Willy Lam told AFP.

"The main purpose (of the crackdown) is suppression of the political aspirations of the Uighurs, but they are trying to put an economic spin on this," he added.

A September white paper by the government called poverty "the biggest obstacle to fulfilling the human rights of the Chinese people," and emphasised that China had lifted hundreds of millions of people out of absolute poverty since the 1970s.

- Diplomatic push -

China's efforts to redefine human rights have been gaining momentum in international forums.

Beijing introduced a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council last year that "gutted procedures to hold countries accountable for human rights violations, suggesting 'dialogue' instead," Human Rights Watch researcher Maya Wang told AFP.

In October, 23 nations backed a British statement at the UN condemning China's human rights record in Xinjiang.

But China's allies countered with a statement of their own that won even broader support, with some 54 nations backing a text that heaped effusive praise on Beijing's "remarkable achievements in the field of human rights".

https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/1815339/china-ramps-up-campaign-to-redefine-human-rights#cxrecs_s

But that's ok Muslims don't care, they just want to bury their heads in shit.

God damn israeli we as Pakistani are not intrested in your bullsht% unless its about india Kashmir or Palistine.
we all know if israel is directly involve spreading this new then we see the importance of this to israel.
india and israel is planning to attack on Pakistans nuclear and both of you wanted to make sure that no one involve when you do your dirty trick.
Pakistan and Chines are iron brothers.

 

[DavidsSling]

The Chinese pay Muslims money to keep silent on the Uiyghurs and other Muslims in China being tortured in "educational camps".
Are they good or bad as Atheists? Many Atheist see what China is doing is wrong , just wanted you to know that.


It's sad. but I not lost all hope on these Muslims.

Hope is a powerful thing, I have a few Turkish friends and they are good people.

 

[Attila the Hun]

God damn israeli we as Pakistani are not intrested in your bullsht% unless its about india Kashmir or Palistine.
we all know if israel is directly involve spreading this new then we see the importance of this to israel.
india and israel is planning to attack on Pakistans nuclear and both of you wanted to make sure that no one involve when you do your dirty trick.
Pakistan and Chines are iron brothers.

The Chinese do not care for you Pakistan. You will learn the hard way.

Hope is a powerful thing, I have a few Turkish friends and they are good people.

Yes, Israelis are good people too. Do you live in Oz??