More countries appear willing to call out its treatment of the Uyghurs
China was determined to avoid what, in its eyes, would have been a humiliation. President Xi Jinping himself was said to have telephoned several of his counterparts to ensure that their representatives in Geneva voted the Chinese way. His chief delegate in the city “literally camped at the gates” of the residence of the wavering Mexican ambassador in order to badger him on the day of the vote, says a Western diplomat. Sure enough, Mexico limply abstained, along with Brazil and India.
But that is not the end of the matter. Western diplomats and human-rights campaigners argue that failures by China to get its way in other international forums presage an erosion of its influence in the human-rights arena. The closeness of thevote was “a massive step forward”, says a seasoned rights monitor.
Even in this questionable company China has been losing ground. When it was elected in 2016, it won the most votes in its group. In 2020, when it was re-elected, it won the least. Once back on the council, it fought hard to ensure that its preferred candidate became president. But it failed to prevent a Fijian, who genuinely believed in promoting human rights, from being elected instead.’s many agencies.
China and Russia both aim to redefine the terms of human rights, tilting them away from individual freedoms towards an emphasis on social and economic progress. In the run-up to the 75th anniversary in December of the universal declaration of human rights, they have encouraged talk of junking the Western-led liberal consensus that has prevailed, more or less, since the end of the second world war.convention on crimes against humanity, which would technically be binding.
magazine sums it up, bleakly from China’s point of view: “Moscow and Beijing got outfoxed. And they knew it.”
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