Outside View

The farce of bashing China's human rights

The West has no moral authority to lecture anyone, including China, about rights and democracy, while respect for liberty is at an historic low in Europe and the US, a columnist said in The Times.

Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked, said the lowly double standards that informed Western views of the vicious Easterner 60 years ago are being rehabilitated in the modern era by human rights activists, who are calling on Western democracies to put pressure on China over "Tibet problem" and its "human rights abuses".