In the western world, we generally think of rights as including the right to live, the right to do so in freedom, without torture; the right to sufficient and nutritious food; the right to education; the right to medical care; the right to be able to buy and sell property; the right to conduct business; the right to a defence in law; the right to marry or not marry as one pleases; and so on.
In China, the rights of the individual are not as centric to the general consciousness, which is more focused on social responsibility.
The rights of a government should (and I'm making a moral judgement here by using the word "should") be based upon natural moral law, with regard to social ethics for communities. But another person can disagree and, if s/he has the power and authority to do so, can eradicate such rights under government, setting new laws based upon whatever considerations that government may please.
What some will consider rights may conflict with law in some areas. But then, humans do not agree and have not agreed upon what rights one has; hence there are yet philosophers and campaigners and activists and dreamers, the world over. But - and I may be wrong - I doubt that GST on overseas postage is one of the great burning eternal questions.
