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On August 30, “The Kite Runner,” a film adapted from Afghan American novelist Khaled Hosseini’s best-seller, became a top subject of interest on the Chinese internet, thanks to a barrage of criticism by China’s state-run media of the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported on its August 30 “Live News” show that it had recently been “exposed” that the U.S. film was shot in Kashgar, Xinjiang, rather than in Afghanistan, because of security concerns.

The CCTV segment included a response from Xu Guixiang, spokesperson for the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region’s government, to “the hypocrisy of the United States.”

“We also noticed this film. It’s The Kite Runner. ... The background of the story was set in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. After 9/11, the United States invaded Afghanistan in the name of counter-terrorism, dragging Afghanistan into war, chaos and unrest. It was difficult to find a place of peace and tranquillity, so the film crew chose to shoot in places like Kashgar and Tashkurgan in Xinjiang," Xu said during an August 30 news conference.

LINK: www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-china-xinjiang-kite-runner/31448505.html

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