The Chinese communist regime is trying to subvert the global human rights system to avoid accountability for its sweeping repression of rights within its own borders, according to rights activist Laura Harth. Harth, the campaign director at Madrid-based nonprofit Safeguard Defenders, said the regime has been active at the Human Rights Council (HRC), the United Nations’ highest body for human rights, to remold the norms surrounding U.N. scrutiny of countries’ rights records. “They’re proposing this definition: this idea of human rights with Chinese characteristics, with socialist characteristics,” Harth told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program. In June last year, for instance, the HRC adopted a resolution proposed by China on “mutually beneficial cooperation,” which analysts said was an effort to replace “name and shame” resolutions with “constructive dialogue” involving the offending state. The resolution, adopted by a vote of 23-16, “seeks to reposition international human rights law as a matter of state-to-state relations …