According to a report by Business Insider, China responded to reports that Western ambassadors in Beijing were planning a coordinated meeting to question officials in Xinjiang over their persecution of the Uighur ethnic minority. On Thursday, Reuters reported that 15 ambassadors wrote a letter demanding a meeting with Chen Quanguo, the Communist Party secretary in Xinjiang, so he can explain alleged human rights abuses against the majority-Muslim, Turkic-speaking group.