China News

103 readers

1 users here now

A community for china news

founded 5 months ago

MODERATORS

rss@news.abolish.capital

Salamence@lemmy.zip

RedWizard@news.abolish.capital

Salamence@mander.xyz

China versus the West? Wang Yi tells UN no country is ‘human rights teacher’ (www.scmp.com)

submitted 1 month ago by rss@news.abolish.capital to c/china@news.abolish.capital

1 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Human rights cannot be used to “whitewash hegemony”, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a UN meeting, 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’,” he said,...

From China - South China Morning Post via This RSS Feed.

top 1 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] NaibofTabr 2 points 1 month ago

A valid statement, and a pointed criticism, but also kind of sounds like an admission of guilt.