Chinese Foreign Minister Scolds Journalist After Being Asked On China's Human Rights Advocacy

A Canadian journalist was told off by a top Chinese official after a question on China's human rights advocacy was being inquired.

Foreign Minister Wang Yi was in a news conference with Minister of Foreign Affairs Stephane Dion prior to a scheduled visit with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, when IPolitics reporter Amanda Connolly asked Mr. Wang about the case of detained Canadian Kevin Garratt who was accused of undercover activities, The Guardian reported.

Connolly continued to strike a nerve on the foreign official when she probed on Canada's undertaking of forming good ties with China and by what means does alliance bring to the country especially in relation to the aforementioned Garratt case.The resilient journalist even took into account the South East Asian country's continuing heated discussions with its neighbors on the South China Sea territories.

"Your question is full of prejudice against China and arrogance from where I don't know. I completely can't accept it," Wang answered back via an interpreter.

Wang mentioned to the journalist if she had ever paid a visit to his country as China has liberated over 600 million of its population out of impoverishment and that the country has a body of fundamental principles on human rights.

Apparently, the news website reporter's query was thought up earlier in harmony with more than a few news outlets, The New York Times reported.

Last January, Peter Dahlin, 35, a Swedish activist was detained in China on charges of damaging national security and has now been released and deported amid a crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists, The Telegraph reported.

His apparent deportation comes almost one week after he was paraded on Chinese television to make what friends and colleagues described as a forced confession.

China has begun enforcing rules on activists since President Xi Jinping took power in 2012.