TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wan,Ming
TI  - Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations: Defining and Defending National Interests 
T2  - Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
SN  - 9780812235975
U1  - 323.1 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Human rights
KW  - China
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Law
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Public Policy
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Chapter One. Introduction --; Chapter Two. Chinese Views of Human Rights --; Chapter Three. Human Rights and Sino-U.S. Relations --; Chapter Four. Human Rights and Sino-European Relations --; Chapter Five. Human Rights and Sino-Japanese Relations --; Chapter Six. Human Rights and Sino-UN Relations --; Chapter Seven. Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Acknowledgments; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Few issues in the relations between China and the West invoke as much passion as human rights. At stake, however, are much more than moral concerns and hurt national feelings. To Washington, the undemocratic nature of the Chinese government makes it ultimately suspect on all issues. To Beijing, the human rights pressure exerted by the West on China seems designed to compromise its legitimacy. As China's economic power grows and its influence on the politics of developing countries continues, an understanding of the place of human rights in China's foreign relations is crucial to the implementation of an effective international human rights agenda.In Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations, Ming Wan examines China's relations with the United States, Western Europe, Japan, and the United Nations human rights institutions.Wan shows that, after a decade of persistent external pressure to reform its practices, China still plays human rights diplomacy as traditional power politics and deflects pressure by mobilizing its propaganda machine to neutralize Western criticism, by making compromises that do not threaten core interests, and by offering commercial incentives to important nations to help prevent a unified Western front. Furthermore, at the UN, China has largely succeeded in rallying developing nation members to defeat Western efforts at censure.In turn, it is apparent to Wan that, while the idea of human rights matters in Western policy, it has seldom prevailed over economic considerations or concerns about national security. Western governments have not committed as many policy resources to pressuring Beijing on human rights as to other issues, and the differing degrees of commitment to human rights-related foreign policy explain why Japan, Western Europe, and the United States, in that order, have gradually retreated from confronting China on human rights issues
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203059
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812203059
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812203059/original
ER  -