{"id":31823,"date":"2021-05-07T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/may\/07\/where-is-new-zealands-values-based-foreign-policy-when-it-comes-to-the-uyghurs"},"modified":"2021-05-07T05:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:00:17","slug":"where-is-new-zealands-values-based-foreign-policy-when-it-comes-to-the-uyghurs-guled-mire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31823","title":{"rendered":"Where is New Zealand\u2019s \u2018values-based\u2019 foreign policy when it comes to the Uyghurs? | Guled Mire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Other small nations also feel vulnerable to Chinese aggression but it hasn\u2019t stopped them speaking out over the Uyghur genocide<\/p>\n<p>After the Christchurch terror attacks, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern donned a hijab as she comforted the relatives of the 51 Muslims who were killed simply for practising their faith. The image spread across the world and she was lavished with international praise.<\/p>\n<p>Yet her apparent turning away from the active erasure of China\u2019s Uyghur Muslim minority population may undo that reputation. On Wednesday, New Zealand\u2019s parliament backed away from calling what is happening in Xinjiang a \u201cgenocide,\u201d opting instead for the watered-down language of \u201chuman rights breaches\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/may\/07\/where-is-new-zealands-values-based-foreign-policy-when-it-comes-to-the-uyghurs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other small nations also feel vulnerable to Chinese aggression but it hasn\u2019t stopped them speaking out over the Uyghur genocideAfter the Christchurch terror attacks, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern donned a hijab as she comforted the relatives of the 51 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,56,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-new-zealand","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31824,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31823\/revisions\/31824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}