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Original title: China and the United States in a fierce confrontation at the Human Rights Council Hua Chunying counterattacked with four questions Source: People’s Daily client
On March 25, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying chaired a regular press conference.
A journalist asked a question. The 46th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council has concluded. During this meeting, China and Western countries engaged in a fierce confrontation. The US State Department declared yesterday that China’s resolution to “promote mutually beneficial cooperation in the field of human rights” puts the interests of the government above individual human rights and fundamental freedoms. The United States strongly opposes the adoption of this resolution. What comment does China have on this?
Hua Chunying said that the western countries you are talking about are actually the United States and several of its allies. The United States claims that China puts the interests of the government before individual human rights, which constitutes a disguised exchange of concepts. China takes the interests of human rights as the center, insists that people are supreme and life is supreme, and safeguards the human rights of the overwhelming majority of the people. On the other hand, some American politicians focus on partisan political interests and do not care about the life or death of ordinary people.
Hua Chunying asked: The United States keeps saying that it values individual human rights and freedom. So I would like to ask, when the United States sparked unprovoked wars against sovereign countries, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and countless wives scattered and displaced, have they cared about the lives of the people in these countries? Are human rights and freedoms individual?
When the United States, the world’s most developed, wealthy and medically advanced country, put politics above science, leaving more than half a million Americans to lose their precious lives and tens of millions of people to lose their health insurance. When one in six Americans and a quarter of American children face the threat of hunger, have they cared about the personal human rights and freedom of the American people?
When the US tolerated the spread of racial discrimination, allowed the police to violently enforce the law against people of color, observed the “Floyds” unable to breathe, observed how Asians were discriminated against, attacked or even killed , this mattered to them. human rights and individual freedoms of people who suffer systematic racial discrimination and hate crimes?
When the problem of gun proliferation in the United States has dragged on for a long time, and more than 41,500 people are killed by gunfire each year, have you cared about the personal human rights and freedom of these victims?
Hua Chunying emphasized that human rights are not a slogan, much less a tool to pressure other countries, they must be reflected in concrete actions. Human beings are the basis of human rights and the interests of people are the starting point and the end of the cause of human rights. China adheres to the people-centered concept of human rights and views increasing people’s sense of profit, happiness and security as the fundamental pursuit of human rights and the ultimate goal of national governance. We met the poverty reduction goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10 years ahead of schedule and created the world’s largest social security system, covering almost 1.4 billion people. This not only improved people’s income and living standards, but also ensured that housing Everyone has a school and everyone has medical treatment. Faced with the new corona pneumonia epidemic, China fully defended the value and dignity of human life, took the lead in controlling the epidemic, and also carried out the largest global emergency humanitarian operation in the history of New China. Two days ago, the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council approved the resolution “Promotion of mutually beneficial cooperation in the field of human rights” presented by China, calling on all countries to join. to multilateralism, engage in constructive dialogue and cooperation in the field of human rights, and promote the building of a community with a shared future for humanity. I believe that this fully demonstrates universal aspirations and demands justice from the international community and the peoples of the world.
Hua Chunying pointed out that we have also noticed that when the United Nations Human Rights Council reviewed the United States ‘human rights report this year, more than 110 countries criticized the United States’ human rights issues. Dozens of special rapporteurs for the United Nations Human Rights Council have repeatedly criticized the problems of poverty and discrimination against minorities in the United States. We hope that the United States and its various Western allies can abandon hypocrisy, arrogance, and double standards, confront their own human rights issues head-on, and take concrete action to improve and protect human rights. China is willing to dialogue with other countries on human rights issues in a spirit of equality and mutual respect, exchange and learn from each other, and achieve common progress.
