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This paper investigates how China’s use of human rights discourse during the Xi Jinping Administration facilitates an increase in its global influence. This study adopts Fairclough’s three-dimensional framework of critical discourse analysis and conducts a qualitative study on the human rights discourse published by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 2012 and 2023. The paper argues that China strategically employs human rights discourse in a highly political manner. China uses its human rights discourse as a means of defense, offense, and propaganda; its utilization of human rights discourse is aligned with the scenarios in which the discourse is delivered, the ongoing global events, and China’s relations with specific countries. China employs such instruments to actively engage in international human rights dialogues, contest the liberal human rights ideology upheld by the United States and its allies, and promote an alternative human rights vision to attract prospective allies.

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