China may face more embarrassment over its human-rights record
More countries appear willing to call out its treatment of the Uyghurs
ON PAPER, CHINESE diplomacy was victorious. Last October the UN’s Human Rights Council (HRC) voted by 19 to 17 against holding a debate on a long-delayed report which concluded that China may have committed “crimes against humanity” by mistreating Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The Chinese delegation expended extraordinary energy in seeking to persuade HRC members to vote against the resolution, which would merely have triggered a discussion in the council lasting a few hours.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Freedoms and failures”
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