{"id":44843,"date":"2022-05-25T19:47:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T10:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/25\/xi-jinping-china-human-rights-record-un-commissioner-visit-michelle-bachelet"},"modified":"2022-05-25T19:47:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T10:47:25","slug":"xi-jinping-defends-chinas-human-rights-record-to-visiting-un-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44843","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping defends China\u2019s human rights record to visiting UN commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader warns against using issue as \u2018excuse to interfere in internal affairs of other countries\u2019 as Michelle Bachelet goes to Xinjiang<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s 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 \u201cexcuse to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries\u201d and defending his government\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<p>It comes amid renewed defensiveness in Beijing after the publication of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/24\/thousands-of-detained-uyghurs-pictured-in-leaked-xinjiang-police-files\">a significant data leak from Xinjiang\u2019s security apparatus<\/a>, including mugshots of thousands of detained Uyghurs and internal documents outlining shoot-to-kill policies for those who try to escape.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/25\/xi-jinping-china-human-rights-record-un-commissioner-visit-michelle-bachelet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader warns against using issue as \u2018excuse to interfere in internal affairs of other countries\u2019 as Michelle Bachelet goes to XinjiangChina\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, has spoken with the UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, as she visited the Xinjiang &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,53,1926,84,2052,42,49,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-human-rights","category-michelle-bachelet","category-united-nations","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44843","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44844,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44843\/revisions\/44844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}