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Wang meets top UN rights official as she opens Xinjiang trip

In this photo released by UN Human Rights Office, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at right meets with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong Province on Monday, May 23, 2022. (UN Human Rights Office via AP) In this photo released by UN Human Rights Office, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at right meets with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong Province on Monday, May 23, 2022. (UN Human Rights Office via AP) In this photo released by UN Human Rights Office, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at right meets with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong Province on Monday, May 23, 2022. (UN Human Rights Office via AP) In this photo released by UN Human Rights Office, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at right meets with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong Province on Monday, May 23, 2022. (UN Human Rights Office via AP) In this photo released by UN Human Rights Office, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at right meets with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong Province on Monday, May 23, 2022. (UN Human Rights Office via AP) In this photo released by UN Human Rights Office, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at right meets with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong Province on Monday, May 23, 2022. (UN Human Rights Office via AP) In this photo released by UN Human Rights Office, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at right meets with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong Province on Monday, May 23, 2022. (UN Human Rights Office via AP) In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, second right, meets with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, left, in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong Province on Monday, May 23, 2022. China opposes “politicizing” human rights and imposing double standards, its foreign minister said in comments at the start of a visit by a top United Nations official focused on allegations of abuses against Muslim minorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. (Deng Hua/Xinhua via AP) In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, meets with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong Province on Monday, May 23, 2022. (Deng Hua/Xinhua via AP) FILE - A security person watches from a guard tower around a detention facility in Yarkent County in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on March 21, 2021. Allegations of human rights abuses in China's northwestern Xinjiang region are the dominant issue on a visit by the United Nations' top rights official that starts Monday, May 23, 2022. changes are needed to fight Islamic extremism. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File) FILE - A man holds a child as they watch a dance performance at the International Grand Bazaar in Urumqi in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 21, 2021. Allegations of human rights abuses in China's northwestern Xinjiang region are the dominant issue on a visit by the United Nations' top rights official that starts Monday, May 23, 2022. changes are needed to fight Islamic extremism. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) FILE - A child rests near the entrance to the mosque where a banner in red reads "Love the party, Love the country" in the old city district of Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region, Nov. 4, 2017. Allegations of human rights abuses in China's northwestern Xinjiang region are the dominant issue on a visit by the United Nations' top rights official that starts Monday, May 23, 2022. changes are needed to fight Islamic extremism. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File) FILE - Uyghurs and other members of the faithful pray during services at the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, as seen during a government organized visit for foreign journalists on April 19, 2021. Allegations of human rights abuses in China's northwestern Xinjiang region are the dominant issue on a visit by the United Nations' top rights official that starts Monday, May 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File) FILE - Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks during a news conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Dec. 9, 2020. Allegations of human rights abuses in China's northwestern Xinjiang region are the dominant issue on a visit by the United Nations' top rights official that starts Monday, May 23, 2022. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)
Wang meets top UN rights official as she opens Xinjiang trip