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China has made serious démarches with Japan whose upper house adopted on Monday a resolution on human rights in regions including Xinjiang and Hong Kong, which the Chinese Foreign Ministry reprimanded for ignoring basic facts, containing nothing but disinformation, interfering in China's internal affairs and violating international law and norms in international relations. 

The House of Councilors of Japan adopted a resolution on human rights in China, expressing concern over the "human rights issues" in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Hong Kong, reports said. 

The resolution ignores basic facts and contains nothing but disinformation and interferes in China's internal affairs and China has made serious démarches with the Japanese side, Mao Ning, spokesperson of China's Foreign Ministry, said at a press briefing. 

The world still remembers the war of aggression waged by Japan and the list of human rights violations that Japan still needs to deal with. Pointing fingers at other countries will not cover up Japan's past. Politicizing and instrumentalizing human rights issues to hurt China's image and stall China's development will not succeed, Mao said. 

A spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in Japan also delivered a speech on Monday, saying that China expresses strong dissatisfaction and firmly opposes the so-called resolution on human rights related to China which has no basis in fact, adding that false remarks about China's human rights constitute a negative situation of malicious interference in other countries' internal affairs and seriously violates international law and basic norms in international relations. 

Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong are purely China's internal affairs where there exist no human rights problems at all. Any external force has no right to interfere or make comments. 

Some Western political forces, including Japan, deliberately hyped up the so-called human rights issue in an attempt to contain China's development. Such moves are unpopular and will not succeed, said the spokesman. 

The Chinese people are in the best position to say what the human rights situation in China is like. China's achievements in human rights development have been positively evaluated by most countries in the world.

The then Japanese militarists used to wage wars of aggression against other countries and committed grave crimes against humanity. So far, Japan has yet to thoroughly reflect on its history and there still exist many human rights issues pending to be solved. It has no right to criticize other countries' human rights conditions, and has no right to preach Western values to other countries. 

China urges the Japanese side to immediately change course and stop using the human rights issue for political provocation, stop using the human rights issue as a political provocation to avoid further interference in China-Japan relations. 

Global Times