Chinese state media compares Xinjiang to New Zealand in article pushing back against Uighur human rights abuse


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Watch as MPs on Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee grill Secretary of Foreign Affairs Chris Seed about how New Zealand is helping the Uighurs in China. Credits: Video - Newshub; Image- Getty. Chinese state media has compared the nation's Xinjiang province to New Zealand in an article attempting to bolster the region's appeal and deflect from the human rights abuses underway there. Over recent years, as credible first-hand reports emerge, China's north-western province of Xinjiang has become well-known internationally for hosting concentration camps said to house millions of members of the Uighur minority. There, Uighurs are said to be subject to...