A week of headlines for Xinjiang ended with a senior U.S. official accusing China of the 'mass imprisonment of Muslims in concentration camps.' This comes after the level of tech now being used to suppress the region's population was exposed by Human Rights Watch. We have reached new heights.
The oppressive surveillance state that China has deployed in Xinjiang has been in the headlines all week. But on Friday, the level of condemnation reached a new height when a senior U.S. official "significant concerns when it comes to the ongoing repression in China, [with] the Communist Party using the security forces for mass imprisonment of Chinese Muslims in concentration camps."
iven what we understand to be the magnitude of the detention - [with] at least a million but likely closer to three million citizens out of a population of about ten million, so a very significant portion of the population - what's happening there, what the goals are of the Chinese government and their own public comments make that a very, I think, appropriate description."
China is willing to conduct exchange on [Xinjiang] with all parties on the basis of equality and mutual respect. In the meantime, we firmly oppose the interference in China's internal affairs by anyone under the pretext of human rights." The spokesperson was There had been hints towards U.S. 'concentration camp' rhetoric earlier in the week. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that"we watch the massive human rights violations in Xinjiang where over a million people are being held in a humanitarian crisis that is the scale of what took place in the 1930s. And we see American businesses and their technology being used to help facilitate that activity from the Chinese government. It’s something worthy of thinking about.
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