"China's option has some innovations compared with the Western concept of human rights," says Paskal Milo, professor and academician at the Mediterranean University of Albania. He was speaking during the 2026 Forum on Global Human Rights Governance, which opened in Beijing on Thursday. Milo noted that China places development, social stability, national sovereignty and international economic cooperation at the center of its human rights approach. Milo also supported the concept of development as a core category of human rights, saying that economic development serves as the basis for securing many other rights.