Chinese leader Xi defends record to UN human rights chief

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By KEN MORITSUGU

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping defended China’s record to the top U.N. human rights official Wednesday, saying each nation should be allowed to find its own path based on its particular circumstances and criticizing those countries that lecture others on human rights and politicize the issue.

“Through long-term and persistent hard work, China has successfully embarked on a path of human rights development that conforms to the trend of the times and suits its own national conditions,” Xi told U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet in a video call, according to an online report by state broadcaster CCTV.

Bachelet is in the middle of a six-day visit to China that includes stops in Xinjiang, a remote northwestern region where the Chinese government has been accused of human rights violations and genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic groups. Her trip has been criticized by the U.S. and others, who think that China will limit whom she can talk to, stage manage her trip and use it for propaganda purposes.

The CCTV report didn’t mention Xinjiang or the Communist Party’s often harsh treatment of dissidents and activists and ethnic groups in Tibet and Inner Mongolia.



In this photo taken May 24, 2022 and released by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) , United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, second from left, holds a virtual meeting with Vice Minister Du Hangwei of the Ministry of Public Security, seen on screen at right, in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong Province. (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights via AP)


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[turbinetree]

1. I guess he forgot to look in the mirror today and ask what he did in Hong Kong and Tibet

and in the Uyghurs Region......same old tired BS of more BS.....all he does is double talk.....

"Through long-term and persistent hard work, China has successfully embarked on a path of human rights development that conforms to the trend of the times and suits its own national conditions,”

And then to top it all off the world has corporations setting up shop over there and making like nothing is happening....

[Evolve Dammit]

2. Putin and Xi are taking the world to a very dark place if permitted, like TFG did with his praise.

Joe is actually making a stand as much as he can without starting WWIII.

[David__77]

3. This is an editorial.

I don’t think it purports to be one.

[HUAJIAO]

4. Oh, go fuck yourself, Xi.

The whole world is laughing at you, not believing a word of your bullshit.

Well, most of the world.