China's United Nations human rights review puts global divide on display

The battle lines were drawn in Geneva on Tuesday, as China faced a twice-a-decade United Nations public grilling over its human rights record. On one side was a group of mostly Western countries that roundly lambasted Beijing's "serious human rights violations" in Xinjiang and Tibet, and urged it to repeal the national security law it had imposed on Hong Kong. On the other were most Global South nations, many of which praised China's poverty alleviation policies, and Beijing's long-standing part

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