Ideologically, Chinese leadership’s rejection of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law is based on the contention that these supposedly universal values are a mere stalking horse for Western interests, and that repudiating them should thus be viewed as a matter of self-respect. China will never again submit to the West militarily, so it should not submit to the West normatively either.
在意识形态上，中国领导层对人权，民主和法治这类事物的抵制是基于一个观点，那就是这些一般被认为是普世价值的东西其实只是实现西方利益的掩护伞而已，因此对这些事物的否定也应该被视为一种自尊之举。既然中国已经永远不会再屈从于西方军事力量之下，因此也不能再度臣服于西方的规范。