China claims sabotage as UN rights official visits Xinjiang

BEIJING (AP) — China says the U.S.. Britain and other foreign powers are seeking to sabotage its foreign relations by orchestrating criticism surrounding a trip by the top United Nations official for human rights. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Michelle Bachelet as she started her trip, the first to China by a U.N. high commissioner for human rights since 2005. Her visit is focused on allegations of abuses against Muslim minorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, but it’s unclear whom she will be allowed to meet. The U.N. quoted Bachelet as telling Wang that she was looking forward to exchanges with “many different people during my visit.”