China Invites Biden Team to Visit Xinjiang After Genocide AccusationFrances Martel 2 Feb 2021
Local Communist Party officials in Xinjiang, China — where the government has established a network of concentration camps imprisoning as many as 2 million members of local ethnic minorities — invited members of President Joe Biden’s administration to visit the region Monday.
Most of those imprisoned in concentration camps are members of the local Uyghur ethnic minority, the majority of whom are Muslims. Joining them are members of other ethnic minorities such as Kazakhs and Kyrgyz people, forced into the camps to engage in slave labor and indoctrination. There, they endure extreme torture, rape, and forced sterilization, according to survivors. Shortly before departing his post, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo referred to the widespread sterilization and disappearance of Uyghur people in Xinjiang as a “genocide.â€
Pompeo’s successor, current Secretary of State Antony Blinken, agreed during his confirmation hearing that the situation in Xinjiang is a genocide. Blinken has also publicly praised Trump’s overall policies against the Chinese Communist Party.
The agreement between the two otherwise contentious camps prompted an outraged response from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, which adamantly denied, once again, that its abuses and extermination of Uyghur people amounted to genocide.
On Monday, local officials in Xinjiang offered to give Biden administration officials a guided tour under the auspices of the Communist Party to prove that no genocide was ongoing in the region.
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