China News Service, Beijing, June 30 (Reporter Zhang Weiran) issued the latest remarks on U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a regular press conference on June 30 that Pompeo is open Eyes are talking nonsense, and he is advised to stop using the so-called Xinjiang issue to smear China and stop interfering in China's internal affairs.
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian
A reporter asked a question. On the 29th, Pompeo issued a statement on Xinjiang-related issues, saying that German scholar Zheng Guoen’s research shows that the Chinese government has imposed forced sterilization, abortion and family planning on Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities living in Xinjiang, and continued abuse and suppression. minority. What is China's comment?
"Pompeo is talking nonsense with his eyes open." Zhao Lijian said that the Chinese government has always treated the legal rights of people of all ethnic groups, including ethnic minorities, and the population policy has long given preferential treatment to ethnic minorities, including Uighurs.
He introduced that from 1978 to 2018, the Uyghur population in Xinjiang has increased from 5.55 million to 11.68 million, accounting for about 46.8% of the total population of the autonomous region, which is 2.1 times the population 40 years ago.
"If Pompeo's words are true, how come the substantial growth of Xinjiang Uyghur population?" Zhao Lijian asked.
He said that looking back at the United States, ethnic minorities in the United States have been bullied and excluded, and faced long-term, widespread and systematic discrimination in various fields such as politics, economy, culture, and social life. As far as the American Indians are concerned, the US government has long enforced its policies of forced genocide, segregation, and assimilation. In the nearly hundred years since its founding, the United States has expelled and killed Indians through the Westward Movement. By the beginning of the 20th century, the American Indian population had plummeted from 5 million in 1492 to 250,000. Today in the United States, Indians account for only 2% of the total population of the United States.
Zhao Lijian pointed out that after the outbreak of New Coronary Pneumonia, the prevalence of African Americans was more than five times that of whites, and the mortality rate was much higher than that of whites, highlighting racial inequality in the United States. The recent death of the American African-American man Freud and the large-scale protests it has once again fully exposed that the systemic racial discrimination in the United States has brought the ethnic minorities to the "cannot breathe" level and needs to be resolved.
"I also want to emphasize that this is not the first time that the US has quoted anti-China scholar Zheng Guoen's false information." Zhao Lijian said that the American independent news website "Grey Zone" disclosed that Zheng Guoen was actually a member of the far-right organization established by the US government. He is also the backbone of the research team of the "Xinjiang Education Training Center" established by the US intelligence agency.
Zhao Lijian said that we advise Pompeo and other American politicians to take off colored glasses, abandon double standards, face the racial discrimination problems in the United States, spend more time and energy on the human rights situation in the country, and immediately stop using the so-called Xinjiang problem to smear China, stop interfering in China's internal affairs. (Finish)