U.N. Official’s Xinjiang Trip an ‘Insult to Every Victim of Genocide,’ Haley Says

Nikki Haley called a U.N. official’s recent visit to China’s Xinjiang region and meetings with top Chinese Communist Party officials a “total Communist propaganda victory lap,” as human-rights advocates excoriated the trip for lending cover to Chinese abuses. Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. during the Trump administration, also criticized President Biden for re-engaging with the U.N. human-rights apparatus that the official oversees.

U.N. high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet visited Xinjiang last week, on the Chinese government’s terms, amid new revelations about Beijing’s mass detention of hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities on spurious charges.

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Nikki Haley called a U.N. official’s recent visit to China’s Xinjiang region and meetings with top Chinese Communist Party officials a “total Communist propaganda victory lap,” as human-rights advocates excoriated the trip for lending cover to Chinese abuses. Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. during the Trump administration, also criticized President Biden for re-engaging with the U.N. human-rights apparatus that the official oversees.

U.N. high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet visited Xinjiang last week, on the Chinese government’s terms, amid new revelations about Beijing’s mass detention of hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities on spurious charges.