West does not speak for international community

Disregarding the facts, 22 Western countries sent a joint letter to the president of the United Nations Human Rights Council and its high commissioner for human rights recently, making groundless accusations against the anti-terrorism and deradicalization measures that have been employed in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, in an attempt to deceive international public opinion and create the illusion that the international community condemns the human rights situation there.

However, their ploy was soon laid bare, as the Geneva-based resident ambassadors of another 50 countries, sent a signed letter to the president of the UN Human Rights Council and its human rights high commissioner, in which they praised China's efforts to counter terrorism and extremism in Xinjiang, and pointed out that terrorism, separatism and religious radicalism have done serious damage to Chinese people of all ethnic groups in the region and trampled on their basic human rights, such as people's rights to life, health and development.

The handful of Western countries, which only account for about one-tenth of the world's population, claim they speak for the international community when misrepresenting the facts in Xinjiang and speaking ill of China. Yet the mainstream international community, including countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas with different religious and cultural backgrounds, speaks positively of the measures to counter terrorism and extremism in Xinjiang.