China versus the West? Wang Yi tells UN no country is ‘human rights teacher’
Beijing’s top diplomat says issue should not be ‘exploited to adorn democracy’ or to ‘whitewash hegemony’ as he advocates for Global South
“No country is qualified to act as the self-appointed ‘teacher of human rights’. No model of human rights should be proclaimed as ‘the sole prescription’,” a Chinese foreign ministry read-out quoted him as saying.
Human rights should not be “exploited to adorn democracy” or to “whitewash hegemony”, Wang added, asserting that the principles of the UN Charter and international laws were the fundamental safeguard for promoting human rights.
China’s top diplomat further called for “jointly upholding the golden rule of non-interference in other countries’ internal affairs and [saying] no to any act of double standards under the pretext of human rights”.