The New York-based NGO Human Rights Watch issued its World Report 2012 at the beginning of the Chinese Spring Festival holiday this year. As usual, the organization continued reproaching China's human rights conditions without objectivity.

It mainly targeted political issues this time. Obviously, it is in essence a political report issued under the name of human rights rather than a real human rights report.

It seems that some Western countries and NGOs have set out to attack China over its human rights issues. They first assume that human rights are being ignored, then seek evidence from rumors, and make speculations to blindly accuse China of violating human rights with the real purpose of distorting China's international image. 

It is acknowledged that China's human rights development is at an unprecedented stage and current progress is significant.

Why does the West still hold a prejudice against China's human rights? The only reason is that the Cold War mentality and ideological hegemony still prevails. As long as China is a socialist country, the West will insist on distorting its image and see China as a threat to the Western system.

Since the end of the Cold War, the West has been too boastful of its political system, believing it is the only system that has universal value in the world.

China's significant economic progress has stirred Western anxieties. Distorting China's human rights becomes the only political choice.

China should not be afraid of those blind reproaches. As long as China understands the real intention behind the West's politicization of China's human rights issues, it will be more confident to go its own way.

People's Daily