G7 demonizing China out of 'ignorance': Swedish scholar

The UK, US and G7's efforts to demonize China are based on fear and ignorance of modern China and its 5,000-year civilization, a Swedish expert said.

Stephen Brawer, chairman of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden, delivered a speech on Wednesday at the the Forum on Global Human Rights Governance in Beijing.

The two-day event marks the 30th anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action.

Brawer also said Western political leaders lack any insight into China's long history because they are trapped in a "Hobbesian philosophy" that sees men and women fundamentally as only evil and egotistical.

Therefore, he added, Western politicians believe in the law of the jungle and brutal force as the solution to problems, eventually leading to geopolitical conflict.