China values UN relationship despite human rights criticism


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China's President Xi Jinping remotely addresses the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in a pre-recorded message at UN headquarters, on Sept. 21, 2021.Mary Altaffer/The Associated Press As world leaders gather in New York at the annual UN General Assembly, rising superpower China is also focusing on another United Nations body that is meeting across the Atlantic Ocean in Geneva. Chinese diplomats are speaking out and lobbying others at an ongoing session of the Human Rights Council to thwart a possible call for further scrutiny of what it calls its anti-extremism campaign in Xinjiang, following a United Nations...