The United States on Friday (March 12) strongly condemned the Chinese Communist Party‘s mistreatment of ethnic and religious minorities.
U.S. Chargé d’affaires to the United Nations Mark Cassayre told the U.N. Human Rights Council the same day, “We condemn the Communist Party’s abuses against members of ethnic and religious minorities, including Crimes Against Humanity and genocide in Xinjiang, and the imposition of severe restrictions in Tibet.”
Citing U.S. officials, Reuters reported that Secretary of State Blinken and National Security Advisor Sullivan will raise the issue of the CCP authorities’ treatment of Uighurs in a meeting next week in Alaska with Yang Jiechi, the CCP’s Politburo member in charge of foreign affairs, and Wang Yi, the CCP’s foreign minister.
The U.S. has accused Chinese authorities of committing genocide against the Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. Human rights and ethnic rights activists say more than 1 million people are detained in Xinjiang. Communist authorities deny such U.S. allegations.
Chen Xu, the Communist Party’s ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council, made a statement that did not directly mention Xinjiang, but said the Communist Party opposes the politicization of human rights issues.
The Cuban representative, representing 64 countries including the Chinese Communist Party, said Xinjiang is “an inseparable part of China” and urged the countries concerned to “stop playing with issues related to Xinjiang to interfere in China’s internal affairs and refrain from making politically motivated and unfounded accusations against the Chinese Communist Party. “
Julian Braithwaite, Britain’s ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council, said, “We remain deeply concerned about widespread and systematic human rights abuses in Xinjiang, including credible allegations of forced labor and forced birth control.”
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