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Chinese Official’s Tweets Trigger Racial Controversy

China’s repressive policies against the Uyghur minorities in Xinjiang are getting labeled as state-sanctioned racism. Zhao Lijian, the deputy chief of mission for the Chinese embassy in Pakistan, wanted to counter this through tweets from his Twitter account. But instead of providing proof that Beijing is not torturing the Uyghurs, Zhao tried to justify the ...

Max Lu

Zhao Lijian.