PARIS -- An online petition calling for stopping demonizing China has gathered nearly 600 signatures since it was launched on French website MesOpinions.com on Thursday evening. In the petition, the initiators pointed out there is no genocide in China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, but real attacks exist against French journalist and author Maxime Vivas in France, exposing "violations of freedom of expression." Based on his two trips to Xinjiang, Vivas wrote the book "Uygurs, to put an end to fake news," which depicts Xinjiang as a prosperous and stable region. He expressly pointed out in the book that those who...