Although economic reforms have been the focus of China’s Central Committee conferences this past week, significant strides were made in social policy as well. In addition to changes of the country’s One Child Policy, China has also promised reform of its re-education through labor system. Despite China’s progressive rhetoric, human rights activists should not retract their condemnation of China’s elevation to a UN Human Rights Council seat. After all, the re-education through labor system is not China’s only tool to arbitrarily repress dissent.