{O/C} {Closer to home}
Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with the United Nations' top human rights official Michelle Bachelet on her trip to China today.
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It's the first to China by a U.N. high commissioner for human rights since 2005.
The focal point of her six-day trip to Xinjiang will be allegations of abuses against Muslim minorities in Xinjiang's northwestern region amid fears her visit will help sugarcoat the abuses.
Bachelet was quoted as saying she looked forward to exchanges with all manner of people in the name of advancing human rights in China and globally.
In response, Wang noted that China opposes politicising human rights and double standards, insisting people around the world must learn to respect each other as a prerequisite for cooperation and dialogue.
It has been widely reported that an estimated million or so members of Uyghur and other Muslim minorities have been locked up to strip them of their unique cultural identities.
Beijing has come under fire over refusing to criticise Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in addition to its draconian "zero-COVID" policy that has disrupted normalcy in the country.
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