Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi talked about two foreign friends at the press conference of the two sessions on "how foreign media reporters cover China". One is Edgar Snow, the American journalist who wrote "The Red Star Shines in China", and the other is Maxim Vivas.Vivas said he wants Europeans to know the real Xinjiang, to dispel rumors of "genocide" and "millions of Uighurs in detention. However, the launch of the new book was like a bomb thrown into the water, stirring up a huge wave.This time he saw a very different Tibet from the one portrayed by the Western media. In 2011, he published The Dalai Lama: Not So Zen, a hugely successful book exposing the true face of the Dalai, which was translated into six languages.
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