China angered by Hillary
Clinton tweet on women's rights
Mrs Clinton said in a tweet on Sunday that Chinese
President Xi Jinping was "shameless" for hosting a United Nations
conference on women's rights that date.
In her Twitter message, Hillary Clinton twitted as
follows:
Xi is hosting a meeting on women’s rights at the U.N
while persecuting feminists? Shameless.
As per New York Times
, President Xi Jinping of China is a co-host of the meeting on U.N Summit
Meeting on Women’s Rights though his country imprisoned five feminists this
year and President Obama will not attend.
Mr
Xi has come under fire for hosting the summit as several women's rights
activists were held earlier this year for planning a demonstration against
sexual harassment on public transport.
Rights
groups say several female human rights activists remain in detention.
It
is to be noted that Mrs Clinton has made women's rights a signature part of her
campaign.
State
media on Monday thus unsurprisingly reacted with fury, with a strongly-worded
editorial by The Global Times put out in both English and Chinese and
carried widely in other local media outlets.
It accused Mrs
Clinton of aping Republican candidate Donald Trump - who has himself made
provocative remarks about China - in an attempt to gain votes through
China-bashing.
Many
people supported Clinton as they were decrying the detention of the activists
and the state of women's rights in China.
Said
user wbxxxhhh: "Hillary wasn't criticising the arrests of the activists,
but instead was criticising their arrests on cooked-up charges."
"Chinese
women don't even have the right to reproduce, let alone women's rights,"
said Te_leinijiangtui, in a reference to China's one-child policy.
It
is not certain whether Mrs Clinton has taken note of the Chinese brouhaha yet -
if she has, she has yet to give a direct response.
Her
campaign team meanwhile continues to press on. One of their latest tweets
stressed the importance of women's rights.
Courtesy : Tessa Wong - BBC News
