英文媒体关于中国的报道汇总 2023-10-08
October 9, 2023 6 min 1101 words
根据您提供的文章,我总结了以下主要内容- 1. 联合国人权理事会将于本周二进行换届选举,中国将获得其区域的无竞争席位。但人权活动人士正在努力降低中国的得票率,以示全球持续对中国人权记录的不满。 2. 中国持续面临着新疆维吾尔自治区侵犯人权的指控。联合国人权事务高级专员称新疆对维吾尔人的待遇“可能构成危害人类罪的奴役”。 3. 中国一直拒绝联合国调查员进入中国调查人权状况,也拒绝回应19个访问请求。 4. 文章引述国际议会联盟的看法,认为中国明显不符合人权理事会成员的标准,不应当进入理事会。 5. 文章还报道了天安门事件批评者陈思明经过两周在台湾机场过境区滞留后,已获加拿大政治避难。 我的评论是- 1. 中国作为发展中大国,在人权保护方面仍有改进空间,但西方国家和媒体对中国人权问题的批评存在双重标准,并被利用为打压中国的政治工具。 2. 新疆存在反恐维稳的复杂背景,中国政府在反恐问题上表现出坚决态度。任何关于侵犯人权的指控都需要审慎对待,而不是认定为事实。 3. 中国不允许外部势力干预中国内政,这是主权国家的基本立场。联合国调查员的访问请求涉及中国内政,中方有权作出独立判断。 4. 人权理事会成员资格不应被少数西方国家把持,中国作为发展中国家代表享有平等参与国际人权事务的权利。 5. 个别异见人士案例不代表中国整体人权状况。中国仍是发展中大国,存在改进空间。但西方利用个案抹黑中国是不公正的。 总体来说,中国在人权问题上还存在改进空间,但应该理解中国国情和发展阶段,而不是简单地加以指责。中国有权按照国情制定人权政策,西方双重标准的人权批评值得警惕。我们需要在相互尊重的基础上,理性和平地探讨人权问题。
- Campaigners aim to lower support for China on UN human rights council
- China Tiananmen critic stuck in Taiwan transit lounge granted asylum in Canada
Campaigners aim to lower support for China on UN human rights council
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/08/campaigners-aim-to-lower-support-for-china-on-un-human-rights-councilAn effort is under way to drive down the Chinese vote at the UN human rights council this week in an attempt to show continuing worldwide disapproval of its human rights record.
The elections on to the world’s premier human rights body take place by secret ballot on Tuesday with China guaranteed a seat in one of the uncontested seats from its region, but human rights campaigners are working to lower the level of Chinese support to show pressure on the country is not dissipating.
Russia is also seeking to return to the 15-strong council after the UN suspended its membership after the invasion of Ukraine. Russia then withdrew from the council.
In 2016 China received 180 votes but this fell to 139 in 2020 against the background of the Xinjiang controversies. Xi Jinping’s crackdown on the region and its Uyghur population has been labelled an attempted genocide by some governments, human rights groups and legal bodies.
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (Ipac) has now garnered support from MPs in 15 countries including Italy and Bolivia, two countries that have not greatly engaged on the issue before. The MPs have written to their foreign ministries urging them not to back China.
China has always relied on strong support in Latin America, but the Bolivian senator Centa Rek López said support for China’s candidacy from certain countries in Latin America “reflects both their own repressive policies, history of human rights abuses and their ties to the People’s Republic of China, which has facilitated corruption, surveillance and economic dependency”.
The UN general assembly resolution that created the human rights council in 2006, urges countries voting for members to “take into account the contribution of candidates to the promotion and protection of human rights”. Council members are required to “uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights” at home and abroad and “fully cooperate with the council”.
The UN high commissioner for human rights last year argued that the treatment of Uyghurs “may amount to enslavement as a crime against humanity, meriting a further independent analysis”. The separate unofficial Uyghur tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice KC, found Beijing guilty of genocide on the basis it had acted to prevent Uyghur births.
The UN has issued 83 formal communications since 2018 to China. UN special procedures, the UN’s investigatory arm, complained it had “yet to see any signs of political will to address the concerns raised”. Similarly China has rejected every universal periodic review recommendation to allow UN investigators access, and refused to reply to 19 visit requests.
The UK co-chair of Ipac, Helena Kennedy KC, said: “It’s manifestly clear that China does not meet the criteria for election to the human rights council. Not only does Beijing stand credibly accused of genocide and crimes against humanity, they have obstinately refused to cooperate with official investigators, and even attacked rapporteurs and special procedures delegates for raising concerns.
“In recent years we have seen the People’s Republic of China able to command bloc votes at the council to prevent further debate surrounding Xinjiang. This is a clear and intolerable distortion of an essential human rights institution. While it may not be possible to prevent the PRC’s election this time, a lower vote share would send a strong signal that the rest of the world has had enough.”
Ipac’s director, Luke de Pulford, refused to be drawn on the target number of votes, but said it would be a huge achievement if the China vote were below 139.
China Tiananmen critic stuck in Taiwan transit lounge granted asylum in Canada
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/08/china-tiananmen-critic-stuck-in-taiwan-transit-lounge-granted-asylum-in-canadaA Chinese dissident who was stuck inside a Taiwanese airport transit area after he refused to fly on to China says he has arrived in Canada after being granted asylum.
Chen Siming arrived in Taipei on 22 September, after travelling through Thailand and Laos. When he landed at Taipei’s international airport he refused to reboard, requesting assistance to resettle in a third country.
He spent almost two weeks living in the transit area and immigration office of the airport, where he said he was looked after by authorities. There was concern over how long he would be there, after a similar case in late 2018 saw two dissidents spend four months at the airport.
Chen told the Guardian on Sunday that he arrived in Vancouver on Saturday. “I was able to successfully obtain political asylum in Canada,” he said, crediting the international attention on his case and various human rights groups, as well as the governments of Taiwan and Canada and the United Nations refugee agency. “The three parties handled my case quickly in the spirit of humanitarian care,” he said.
“This kindness will be remembered forever, I would like to express my sincere gratitude.”
Chen is a known activist in China who regularly commemorated the Tiananmen Square massacre of 4 June 1989 and has been repeatedly detained around the anniversary. He fled China for Laos in late July, but after the arrest and deportation of human rights lawyer Lu Siwei, Chen was advised to leave the country. He arrived in Thailand where he said he was granted interim asylum status by the UNHCR, before booking a flight to Guangzhou, China, but which transited in Taiwan.
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Fellow dissident and political commentator, Baoshen Guo, who had been assisting Chen, said Chen was “very lucky” to have been transferred so quickly. In late 2018 Yan Bojun and Liu Xinglian spent about 100 days in the airport before Taiwan authorities decided they could enter, but only after they flew to Singapore and then returned on short-term humanitarian visas.
Taiwan does not have a formal refugee pathway, and tensions between Taipei and Beijing – which has vowed to annex Taiwan – make the topic of Chinese asylum seekers a politically sensitive and complicated issue.
Taiwan’s mainland affairs council, which was handling Chen’s case, has been contacted for comment.