Chinese envoys have defended Beijing's treatment of Hong Kong and Muslim minorities in an unusual public confrontation with human rights advocates at a U.N. meeting.
During the meeting of the U.N. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the officials also rejected complaints that China's ruling Communist Party hampered the global response to COVID-19 by hiding information.
The crackdown on Hong Kong in response to anti-government protests that began in 2019 prompted complaints Beijing was eroding the autonomy and Western-style civil liberties promised when the former British colony returned to China in 1997. On COVID-19, a health official, He Qinghua, said China's cooperation with the World Health Organization and other governments was "open and transparent, and the cooperation is also effective."
Chinese authorities acknowledge hundreds of thousands of people in Xinjiang were placed in what the ruling party calls "vocational centers." They say those people received job training to promote economic development and fight extremist violence.
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