{"id":48134,"date":"2022-09-03T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/03\/new-zealands-shadow-foreign-affairs-spokesperson-faces-criticism-for-response-to-un-report-on-uyghurs"},"modified":"2022-09-03T03:00:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:00:05","slug":"new-zealands-shadow-foreign-affairs-spokesperson-faces-criticism-for-response-to-un-report-on-uyghurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48134","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s shadow foreign affairs spokesperson faces criticism for response to UN report on Uyghurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry Brownlee says report on human rights violations in Xinjiang recognises China is \u2018dealing with a terrorist problem\u2019<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s shadow foreign affairs spokesperson said a UN report on the human rights abuses of Uyghurs includes recognition that China is \u201cdealing with a terrorist problem essentially\u201d, in remarks criticised by China analysts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s good that it acknowledges that there has been a terrorism problem in the particular part of China that the report is on,\u201d Gerry Brownlee, a lawmaker for the centre-right National party, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/473953\/un-report-on-claims-of-abuse-against-uyghurs-nanaia-mahuta-calls-on-china-to-respond\">told Radio New Zealand<\/a> (RNZ) on Thursday in an interview about the UN findings.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/03\/new-zealands-shadow-foreign-affairs-spokesperson-faces-criticism-for-response-to-un-report-on-uyghurs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry Brownlee says report on human rights violations in Xinjiang recognises China is \u2018dealing with a terrorist problem\u2019New Zealand\u2019s shadow foreign affairs spokesperson said a UN report on the human rights abuses of Uyghurs includes recognition that C&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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":[41,50,56,933,84,2052,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-united-nations","category-uyghurs","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\/48134","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48135,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48134\/revisions\/48135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}