West's human rights tactic doomed to fail

China pushed back on Wednesday against groundless accusations made by a handful of Western countries under the pretext of so-called human rights issues, saying that countries including the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada would do better to reflect on their own poor human rights record.

"The facts have repeatedly proven that some Western countries are obsessed with fabricating lies and rumors about China with the real intention of containing China's development," Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said, adding that the Western countries' attempts are doomed to fail.

Zhao's remarks came after Canada, on behalf of some Western countries, attacked China on issues related to its Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Tibet autonomous region during the 47th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday.