China ramps up campaign to redefine 'human rights':
"China is ramping up a global campaign to promote its own vision of human rights,
inviting the likes of North Korea and Syria to a forum on the topic and drafting other
countries to back its policies at the UN.
Western nations have condemned China's rights record, including a security
crackdown that has detained an estimated one million mostly Muslim minorities in re-
education camps in northwest Xinjiang region.
China is responding with an increasingly strong counter-narrative, which emphasises
security and economic development over civil and political freedoms.
"The people of each country all have the right to decide for themselves their human
rights development path," Chinese vice foreign minister Ma Zhaoxu told delegates at a
summit on the issue this week.
Attendees at the "South-South human rights forum" included representatives from
North Korea, Pakistan and Syria -- three countries with their own chequered human
rights records.
One of the speakers at the forum was a political adviser to President Bashar al-Assad,
who has been accused of a series of chemical attacks and indiscriminate bombings of
civilian targets in Syria's civil war.
"I believe China can, with the help of all developing countries, redefine human rights,"
Bouthaina Shaaban said in a speech that blasted Western countries for wanting to
"create all of us in their own image"."
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