Ahead of a planned trip to China this week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is reported to have alleged that Beijing is still committing genocide against Uyghur Muslim minorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The comments in the State Department\u2019s annual report on human rights around the world echoed language in previous years concerning China\u2019s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the western province of Xinjiang.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the comments are notable now given the timing of Blinken\u2019s trip to China, where he is expected to hold delicate talks with his counterparts on several key topics, including the ongoing war in Ukraine and global trade.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a preface the State Department\u2019s report, Blinken said the findings document \u2018ongoing grave human rights abuses in the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC).\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
He alleged that in Xinjiang, China is carrying out \u2018genocide, crimes against humanity, forced labor, and other human rights violations against predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
The report\u2019s section on China details the detention of more than one million people in camps and prisons and the use of re-education camps in Xinjiang, among other abuses committed against the broader Chinese population.<\/p>\n
China for its part, has denied these allegations for years, saying these supposed concentration camps are \u2018vocational training centers\u2019 to curb terrorism, separatism and religious radicalism.<\/p>\n
When he took office in 2021, Blinken endorsed a determination by his predecessor that China\u2019s actions amounted to genocide, and he has raised the issue in meetings with Chinese officials.<\/p>\n
A senior State Department official briefing reporters last week on Blinken\u2019s trip said human rights would be among the issues raised by Blinken with Chinese officials, but did not mention the situation in Xinjiang.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reuters contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
Ahead of a planned trip to China this week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is reported to have alleged that Beijing is still committing genocide against Uyghur Muslim minorities.\u00a0 The comments in the State Department\u2019s annual report on human rights around the world echoed language in previous years concerning China\u2019s treatment of Uyghurs and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}