April 2, 2021

Japanese Communist Party Chair Shii Kazuo on April 1 at a press conference in the Diet building said that when criticizing China’s human-rights abuses in Hong Kong and Uyghur, one important thing is to push China to abide by international accords on human rights protection.

Shii pointed out that China is a nation agreed to honor the Universal Human Rights Declaration, the UN human rights covenants, and the Vienna Declaration, and thus has an obligation to comply with these international human rights instruments. He added that governments in the world, including the Japanese government, should criticize China from this point of view in mind.

Shii also pointed out that the U.S. criticizes other nation’s human rights violations based on whether such criticism is to the U.S. advantage or not, which makes the U.S. protests against China less convincing.

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