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Q Research AUSTRALIA #23: HOUSE OF CARDS Edition
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Xi Jinping defends China's human rights record to visiting UN commissioner
Leader warns against using issue as 'excuse to interfere in internal affairs of other countries' as Michelle Bachelet goes to Xinjiang
Helen Davidson - 25 May 2022
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China's leader, Xi Jinping, has spoken with the UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, as she visited the Xinjiang region, warning against the politicisation of human rights as an "excuse to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries" and defending his government's record.
It comes amid renewed defensiveness in Beijing after the publication of a significant data leak from Xinjiang's security apparatus, including mugshots of thousands of detained Uyghurs and internal documents outlining shoot-to-kill policies for those who try to escape.
Xinjiang is home to millions of Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims, who have been subjected to a Chinese government campaign of cultural, linguistic and social control and acts of oppression that governments including the US have termed a genocide.
Bachelet, the UN's high commissioner for human rights, is in China for a highly orchestrated six-day visit, including the Xinjiang cities of Kashgar and Urumqi. The tour, which China has said is not an investigation, has been met with criticism by some western legislators over its potential to be used as propaganda.
In a video call on Wednesday, Xi and Bachelet "expounded in depth major issues related to the development of the Chinese human rights cause", according to an official state media readout. The president said China had successfully embarked on a human rights path that "suits its national conditions".
"There is no perfect 'ideal country' on the human rights issue; there is no need for a 'teacher' who commands other countries, and we can't politicise and instrumentalise the human rights issue, engage in double standards, and use human rights as an excuse to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries," he told her, according to CCTV and Xinhua.
"Deviating from reality and completely copying the institutional model of other countries will not only be difficult to adjust to, but also bring disastrous consequences, and in the end, it is the broad masses of the people who will suffer."
The readout also claimed that Bachelet, among other remarks, told Xi she "admired China's efforts and achievements in eradicating poverty, protecting human rights, and realising economic and social development".
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