China and Authoritarian Collaboration

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ID12422141
AuthorsRana Siu Inboden (Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas, Austin, USA, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume31
Issue136
Pages505-517
Publication date2021-10-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary China (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1067-0564 • E-ISSN: 1469-9400
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10670564.2021.1985828
OpenAlexW3206895573
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This article examines two key trends: China’s collaboration with other authoritarian nations and its expanding ambitions in the international human rights system. These developments fuel questions about China’s vision for the international human rights system and how China works with other repressive governments to realize its vision. In examining these questions, this article chronicles the emergence of the Like-Minded Group (LMG) in the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR or Commission) in 1999 and investigates China’s relationship with this group. The author documents that under Xi’s leadership China has shifted from a lower-profile role in which the PRC rarely attempted to weaken the international human rights architecture on its own to a now more forceful posture. Since 2017 the PRC has begun to sponsor resolutions in the Human Rights Council (HRC) to propagate its human rights views, with LMG countries as a key source of support

Authoritarianism · China · Commission · Democracy · Human rights · Key (lock · Political science · Politics · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · Law · Public Administration

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