By XIN ZHIMING in London | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-27 07:23 Share CLOSE A Uygur family in Yuli county, Northwest China s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, April 15, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
Allegations that China has committed genocide and other forms of mass persecution of Uygurs in its Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region have not been based on solid, verifiable data and evidence, according to a leading United Kingdom-based China expert.
Claims have been on the rise recently that China has engaged in systematic killing and detention of at least 1 million ethnic Uygur people in Xinjiang, with some Western media outlets repeating them as factual accounts.
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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
Some anti-China forces in the West, including the United States, have concocted and disseminated plenty of false information about China s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Xinjiang-related issues are not about human rights, ethnicity or religion at all, but about combating violent terrorism and separatism. The Chinese government has launched anti-terrorism and de-radicalization efforts in Xinjiang in accordance with the law to protect people s lives, which has garnered ardent support of people from all ethnic groups.
People in the region continue to embrace peace and prosperity and Xinjiang society continues to develop steadily. These facts are the most powerful tool to debunk lies on Xinjiang.