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Human rights lost in Chinese translation

There is nothing ‘cultural’ about universal human rights

20 March 2021

9:00 AM

20 March 2021

9:00 AM

First the rule of law and now human rights. No sooner had we been instructed that the rule of law should mean what the Chinese Communist Party decides, than the regime tells us that human rights are no longer universal. Speaking to the UN Human Rights Council, that bastion of such well-known human rights paragons as Cuba and Russia, to which China has been elected, Foreign Minister Wang Yi proposed a modern socialist model of human rights.

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