China News Service, Toronto, December 10 (Reporter Yu Ruidong) Cong Peiwu, Chinese Ambassador to Canada, told the media on December 10 that to understand China’s human rights achievements, the United States and the West must throw away their prejudiced colored glasses and treat each other as equals. To look at China, one must understand China from the perspective of Chinese history and culture.

Data map: Cong Peiwu, Chinese Ambassador to Canada.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Yu Ruidong

  The Chinese Embassy in Canada held a press conference for Chinese and Canadian media via video connection.

Cong Peiwu summarized China's development in 2021 with three key words: "historical, high-quality, and comprehensive".

He said that this year the Communist Party of China celebrates its centenary, China’s battle against poverty has been fully victorious, and the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has been successfully held; the "14th Five-Year Plan" has a steady start, and China’s economy continues to achieve high-quality development; at the same time, China’s external All-round development of exchanges and cooperation.

President Xi Jinping put forward the Global Development Initiative, which aims to accelerate the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, promote a stronger, greener, and healthy global development, and build a community with a shared future for global development.

  When talking about human rights issues, Cong Peiwu said that China has created a great miracle of respecting and protecting human rights and successfully embarked on a path of human rights development with Chinese characteristics, bringing tangible benefits to the Chinese people.

People everywhere in China live and work in peace and contentment.

For example, human rights in Xinjiang are very well protected. Xinjiang’s society is stable and harmonious, the economy is prosperous, and people of all ethnic groups live and work in peace and contentment and live a happy life.

At present, the human rights situation in China is at the best period in history, and anyone without prejudice can deny this.

  He said that a small group of Western countries cannot see China's human rights achievements, cannot understand China's leaps and bounds, and cannot see the essence of China's rapid development. Instead, they wantonly slander and smear China.

This is because he is full of hegemonism, Cold War mentality and zero-sum game concepts in his bones. It does not recognize China’s rapid development, does not adapt to the general trend of world multipolarization and democratization of international relations, and does not understand why China’s human rights can achieve such great achievements. .

They always judge others by their own standards, and always want to force their own set to sell to others.

  He said that Western countries are not qualified to claim to have the best or only correct values ​​in the world.

This mentality of Western countries is being increasingly questioned and challenged by the international community.

The United States and Canada have historically implemented a system of "genocide" against the indigenous people. The situation of the indigenous people and ethnic minorities is still worrying.

Western countries should earnestly draw lessons from history, deeply reflect on their own human rights situation, and refrain from pointing fingers at other countries and acting as human rights "teachers". Otherwise, they will be further opposed by the international community and their attempts are bound to fail.

  When talking about democracy, Cong Peiwu said that democracy is not an ornament for decoration.

The key to whether a country is democratic or not is whether the people are the masters of the country.

The whole process of people's democracy in China is a democracy centered on the interests of the people, and it is a new form of democracy that conforms to China's national conditions.

It avoids the democratic abuses of promises during elections and no one after the elections, and allows the Chinese people to express their own interests in a full, effective, and in-depth manner, and participate in the country's political life.

  He pointed out that the export of American democracy is not satisfied, and the "color revolution" is even more notorious.

The so-called "democracy summit" held by the US artificially divides the world into two camps of "democracy" and "non-democracy". This will only bring more chaos to the world and more disasters to the people of all countries.

As some Canadian media said, the "democracy summit" had worsened geopolitical differences even before it started.

  When talking about the Beijing Winter Olympics, Cong Peiwu said that the Olympics is a grand event for athletes and sports enthusiasts, not a stage for politicians to put on airs.

Any attempt to politicize sports in the name of human rights violates the spirit of the Olympic Charter.

China believes that under the guidance of the Olympic spirit and the joint efforts of all parties, China will be able to present a simple, safe and exciting Olympic Games to the world.

  When talking about China-Canada relations, Cong Peiwu expressed the hope that Canada can seriously reflect on its mistakes and make independent decisions, instead of following in the footsteps of individual countries such as the United States; take practical actions to push bilateral relations back on track as soon as possible and release the potential for cooperation in various fields. Conditions, not barriers.

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