BEIJING (AP) – A Chinese government official said Monday that Hillary Clinton was “biased” on women’s issues in China, while a newspaper compared the presidential hopeful to Donald Trump for her tweet saying it was “shameless” for China’s president to preside over a U.N. conference on gender equality.
Rights activists had criticized Chinese President Xi Jinping’s co-chairing of Sunday’s U.N. Women conference because of China’s detentions of women, including five who were detained for 37 days this year over their plans to advocate against sexual harassment on public transportation.
Wang Yu, a female lawyer who defended one of the activists, has since been detained.
Clinton tweeted on Sunday: “Xi hosted a meeting on women’s rights at the UN while persecuting feminists? Shameless.”
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Monday that China protects its people’s rights in accordance with the law.