- New book, titled Collected Remarks by Xi Jinping on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights, includes 2014 speech to party leaders instructing them how to respond to criticism from Western countries.
Beijing, Dec.18.– New book publication coincides with the latest clash on values between Beijing and the West with competing for virtual summits.
Chinese officials should “resolutely hit back” whenever confronted by the West on human rights, President Xi Jinping instructed China’s ruling elite in 2014, a new book has revealed.
In a February meeting that year, just 11 months into his first term as state president, Xi told about 170 ministerial-level officials that there were plenty of problems in the West.
“When Western leaders talked to me about human rights, I always said there’s no such a thing as best human rights, only better human rights,” he said.
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Note: Jun Mai, the author of this report, is an award-winning journalist and has covered Chinese politics, diplomacy, legal affairs, social activism and general breaking news for a decade. Before his current posting in Beijing, he was based in Hong Kong and has also completed a stint in Washington D.C.