including calls for greater freedoms in Hong Kong and for Uyghurs in Xinjiang, but accepted others from allies, as it sought to defend its record at a UN meeting.
“Progress and development on human rights is achieved in China with each passing day,” China’s ambassador, Chen Xu, told the meeting, alongside a large delegation of Chinese diplomats and officials. He said it rejected recommendations that were “politically motivated based on disinformation, ideologically biased or interfering in China’s traditional sovereignty” and condemned what he called an attempt to “smear and attack” it.
British ambassador Simon Manley complained to the council that China had rejected each and every one of its recommendations, including a call for an end to persecutions of Uyghurs and for the Hong Kong security law to be repealed.