In response to the new United Nations (U.N.) report that found credible evidence of serious human rights violations in Xinjiang, the New Zealand National Party’s foreign affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee has instead echoed Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda that it was dealing with a “terrorism problem.”
“It’s good that it acknowledges that there has been a terrorism problem, in particular, the part of China that the focus of this report is on,” he told Radio New Zealand on Thursday.
Brownlee believes New Zealand should continue to make statements condemning human rights issues in the province where opportunities arise while also recognising that it was a “third-world country dealing with a problem internally.”…