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Why is the US obsessed with smearing Xinjiang through gimmicks? By Zoey Zhang Published: Feb 25, 2021 06:23 PM Updated: Feb 25, 2021 10:27 PM
Xinjiang couple in their new modern home Photo: Yang Hui/GT
As the Trump administration has left, Joe Biden is busy sterilizing the White House. Meanwhile the sinister slander alleging genocide released by Mike Pompeo, the clown of the century, before losing his job, lives on.
Just as the Chinese people were happily celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year, accusations of concentration camps, forced labor, compulsory sterilization, systemic sexual assault and other absurd claims of crimes were levied against Xinjiang.
Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author’s permission.
Both President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, have endorsed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s last-minute accusation of Chinese “genocide” against the Muslim Uyghur population in Xinjiang province. But an investigation of published work by the researcher Pompeo relied on to level his genocide allegation reveals a pattern of data abuse and fraudulent assertions that substantially undermines the incendiary charge.
The US government’s accusation of genocide against China stems from a single source: a June, 2020 paper by Adrian Zenz, a right-wing German researcher affiliated with the