Beijing taps into anti-West resentment to counter UN report

BEIJING (AP) ” Hours after yet another assessment by outside observers that China™s crackdown in its far-west Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin stepped up to a podium to go on the offensive.œThe so-called assessment you mentioned is orchestrated and produced by the U.S. and some Western forces, and is a œa political tool meant to contain China, he said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]