New Zealand’s shadow foreign affairs spokesperson faces criticism for response to UN report on Uyghurs

Gerry Brownlee says report on human rights violations in Xinjiang recognises China is dealing with a terrorist problem'

New Zealand's shadow foreign affairs spokesperson said a UN report on the human rights abuses of Uyghurs includes recognition that China is dealing with a terrorist problem essentially", in remarks criticised by China analysts.

It's good that it acknowledges that there has been a terrorism problem in the particular part of China that the report is on," Gerry Brownlee, a lawmaker for the centre-right National party, told Radio New Zealand (RNZ) on Thursday in an interview about the UN findings.