The Tracking the People's Daily substack today has a great piece summarizing Xi's Human Rights Discourses
While none of it is new per se, it does show:
1) How universal human rights laws and standards are ignored and deflected by calling them "Western"
trackingpeoplesdaily.substack.com/p/xis-speech-t…
While none of it is new per se, it does show:
1) How universal human rights laws and standards are ignored and deflected by calling them "Western"
trackingpeoplesdaily.substack.com/p/xis-speech-t…
2) How Xi, a leader with quasi-totalitarian ambitions and who constantly underscores the need for unity of thought and action domestically, suddenly uses the language of multiculturalism by praising diversity in the context of accepting others' human rights development paths.
3) Although the human rights community views human rights as "universal and inalienable; indivisible; interdependent and interrelated", Xi states that the right to subsistence and right to development are the primary rights (把生存权、发展权作为首要的基本人权)
4) Finally, Xi underscores the CCP's ambition for influencing the human rights governance system,with "a more just, reasonable and inclusive global human rights governance” system globally
(Note that words like "reasonable" or "objective" are highly euphemistic in CCP discourse)
(Note that words like "reasonable" or "objective" are highly euphemistic in CCP discourse)
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