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  • 3 - China, the Convention against Torture, and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture: 1982–2002

  • Rana Siu Inboden, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book:
    China and the International Human Rights Regime
    Published online:
    15 March 2021
    Print publication:
    18 March 2021, pp 77-111

  • Summary

    Chapter three examines China’s role in the drafting and adoption of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture.By covering the drafting of two different international agreements that occurred nearly a decade apart, this chapter illuminates China’s evolving posture as it shifted from a novice acting as a taker during the CAT negotiations to a more experienced regime participant attempting to constrain the regime during the negotiations over OPCAT.This chapter also documents the emergence in the late 1990s of a group of countries with shared views about resisting the kind of visiting authority envisioned in OPCAT, and the PRC’s cooperation with this group.I also briefly discuss the PRC’s interactions with the Committee against Torture to demonstrate that even though the PRC has been a taker toward this body it is not necessarily in substantive compliance with this convention.

China and the International Human Rights Regime
  • Rana Siu Inboden
  • Published online:
    15 March 2021
    Print publication:
    18 March 2021
  • Rana Siu Inboden examines China's role in the international human rights regime between 1982 and 2017 and, through this lens, explores China's rising position in the world. Focusing on three major case studies – the drafting and adoption of the Convention against Torture and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, the establishment of the UN Human Rights Council, and the International Labour Organization's Conference Committee on the Application of Standards – Inboden shows China's subtle yet persistent efforts to constrain the international human rights regime. Based on a range of documentary and archival research, as well as extensive interview data, Inboden provides fresh insights into the motivations and influences driving China's conduct and explores China's rising position as a global power.