West false champion of human rights: China Daily editorial

The speeches made by representatives of a number of countries at the Third Committee of the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday should be a wake-up call to some Western countries to refrain from groundlessly accusing China of "human rights abuses" in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

These countries have clearly seen through the Western countries' scheme of weaponizing human rights issues so as to make them an excuse to interfere in other countries' internal affairs.

In trying to impose the alleged values of the United States-led clique as the sole standards for judging human rights, the United Kingdom, as the representative of that clique, attempted to divide the UN General Assembly.

The UK representative will be no doubt well aware himself that the so-called Xinjiang "human rights issues" he was trying to hype up are nothing more than fabrications from the fertile and furtive minds at the CIA. These have become the basis for a burlesque directed, funded and promoted by Washington with the aim of smearing China and estranging it from the rest of the international community.

It is a shame that those countries, including the US, represented by the UK, wasted the valuable time of the UN meeting, in which the main focus should have been on the Israel-Palestine conflict. These Western countries are by no means the owners of the intellectual property rights to the concept of human rights. Nor are they in any position to lecture other countries, mainly the less-developed ones, on human rights issues. Few of them talk about their own human rights situation.

And they maintain a studied silence on the humanitarian crises they have created around the world, such as in Afghanistan and Iraq, which they now leave unattended. For these Western countries, devastation and suffering are deemed to be the necessary costs for the latecomers to become as "civilized" and "democratic" as they are. Thus they have no qualms about overthrowing foreign regimes, starting wars, inciting "color revolutions", and emboldening separatists.

China condemns the continued fabrication of lies by a handful of Western countries including the UK and the US on Xinjiang-related issues. And it firmly opposes and sternly rejects their insistence on provoking confrontation and interfering in China's internal affairs under the pretext of human rights in total disregard of the truth. The so-called assessment report on China's Xinjiang is full of false information and is totally illegal and invalid.

These self-proclaimed human rights champions should know that their attempts to politicize and weaponize the human rights cause are doomed to failure.