China has rejected German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s demand that it follow the UN human rights commissioner’s recommendations for better treatment of the Uighurs. Responding to a question during Scholz’s speech at the UN General Assembly, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin called the UN report on the situation for members of the Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region “a patchwork of misinformation.” He said it was a “political tool” that serves some Western countries seeking to keep China down. In his speech in New York on Tuesday, the German chancellor had said it would be “a sign of sovere…