U.S. attempts to sow trouble in Xinjiang will not prevail, says MOFA

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The United States' attempts to sow trouble in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, under the pretext of human rights and for the sake of containing China's development, will not prevail, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin at a regular briefing in Beijing on Wednesday.

Wang's rebuttal came one day after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the Uygurs who claimed to have been detained in "internment camps" in Xinjiang.

China has stressed many times that what's happening in Xinjiang is not about ethnicity, religion or human rights, but about fighting terrorism, extremism, and separatism, and China doesn't bear accusations of torture, atrocity, or genocide, said Wang. The lies of the U.S. side have been exposed by the prosperity in Xinjiang, he added.

(Cover: File photo of Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin. /CFP)

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