Labor groups, TSP slam Hung over Xinjiang‘LIES BY THE WEST’: The former KMT chairperson accused Western nations of fabricating lies about Chinese repression of Uighurs in XinjiangBy Jason Pan / Staff reporterWorkers’ groups and the Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP) yesterday condemned remarks by former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) praising China’s Xinjiang policy. It condemned Hung’s remarks that the US and other countries had fabricated lies about Chinese repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang. Photo: AFP / The Victims of Communism Memorial FoundationHung made the remarks while on a Chinese government-sponsored visit to Xinjiang this week. Hung has visited several places in Xinjiang during her China trip, including visiting a “Xinjiang Antiterrorism and Deradicalization Struggle Exhibition” in Urumqi on Tuesday. “Xinjiang is a harmonious, joyful, diverse and inclusive society,” Hung was quoted as saying by the Chinese state news outlet China Daily.

Source: Taipei Times May 27, 2022 23:43 UTC