Obiora Chinedu Okafor has suggested that 'the tension between the universality and relativity of human rights (in almost all its shades) was present at Bandung, however subtly.' It is nonetheless important to note that, while delegates argued over the legitimacy of the UDHR's claim to be a 'common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations', those who resisted endorsing it largely avoided the language of cultural relativism later made prominent in the so-called 'Asian-Values Debate'. Instead, they followed the Chinese premier, Zhou Enlai, who pointed out that his country (like many others) had been excluded from the drafting of this 'universal' declaration and from the UN (China's UN seat having been given to Taiwan in the wake of China's 1949 Communist Revolution).

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 277