David Webster: China cites human rights in spat with Canada

When China’s government recently protested the arrest in Vancouver of Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou, it used something rarely heard from Beijing — the language of individual human rights.
“The detention without giving any reason violates a person’s human rights,” a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.
In using this sort of “rights talk,” China is not simply jumping on the fact that Meng was in detention on the 70th anniversary