China News Service, Beijing, March 2 (Reporter Zhang Weiran) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin hosted a regular press conference on March 2.

　　A reporter asked: On March 1, US Secretary of State Blinken delivered a video speech at the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council, saying that the Chinese government continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.

How does China respond to this?

Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin.

Photo by Xue Wei

　　Wang Wenbin: We condemn the US for spreading lies again and smearing China.

　　Genocide has a strict definition.

According to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1948, genocide refers to an atrocity committed "to destroy in whole or in part a particular group".

Since the founding of the United States, the massacre of Indians has caused the Indian population to plummet from 5 million in 1492 to 250,000 in the early 20th century. This is an outright genocide.

　　Native American historian Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz argues that each of the five counts of genocide listed in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide can be found in crimes against Indians in the United States .

Today, the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released the article "Historical Facts and Real Evidence of the Genocide of Indians in the United States", which introduces the genocide committed by the United States in detail. You are welcome to read it.

　　Over the past 60 years, the total population of China's Xinjiang region has quadrupled, and the total Uyghur population has grown from 2.2 million to about 12 million.

To say that Xinjiang is "genocide" is an outright "lie of the century" and has no morals at all.

　　The biggest promoter of this "lie of the century" is some anti-China forces in the United States.

At the end of the last U.S. administration, Pompeo threw out the lie of "genocide" in Xinjiang.

Although even the US State Department lawyers thought this statement was untenable at the time, Peng still used it as the main tool for smearing and attacking China for anti-China political purposes.

After the new U.S. government came to power, not only did it fail to clear up the "legacy" of the previous government's concocted lies and smears of China, but instead inherited its mantle and continued to manipulate lies to smear and slander China, in an attempt to undermine China's national unity and interfere with China's development.

　　I have also noticed that some media have disclosed that the U.S. government has formulated a Xinjiang-related propaganda strategy and organized specific methods for disseminating Xinjiang-related negative information, including encouraging U.S. academic institutions, think tanks, and NGOs to continue to produce so-called Xinjiang-related "research reports" and publish them. Relevant books; news agencies managed by the US International Media Agency produce news reports and "propaganda materials" about "genocide" and "forced labor" in Xinjiang in dozens of languages, hype up religiously sensitive topics, and coordinate media agencies of allied countries to reprint and push; The US Internet media's "technological investment", on the one hand, weakens and blocks the real Xinjiang-related information released by the Chinese side, and on the other hand, "opens plug-ins" and "equipments" for anti-China forces to spread Xinjiang-related false information. The US government provides heavy financial support for this.

　　What you can see is that in this production chain of Xinjiang-related lies, the US government directs and directs the production and distribution of Xinjiang-related lies.

This echoes the former senior US official Wilkerson's own admission that the US is trying to incite the Uyghurs to "disrupt China from the inside", and fully exposes the US's true intention to undermine China's stability and development through Xinjiang-related issues.

Lies and rumors will eventually be self-defeating in the face of facts and truth.

　　In recent years, more than 2,000 experts, scholars, journalists, diplomats, religious figures and other people from more than 100 countries have visited Xinjiang and witnessed the social stability, economic development and people's happiness in Xinjiang.

At the UN Human Rights Council, nearly 100 countries unanimously supported the Chinese government's Xinjiang policy and opposed interference in China's internal affairs under the pretext of human rights.

And none of the few countries that go along with the United States are Muslims.

More and more people of insight in the world are making rational and objective voices on Xinjiang-related issues.

　　What I want to stress is that the door to Xinjiang is open, and we welcome people from all countries without prejudice to visit and exchange in Xinjiang.

U.S. politicians spreading lies to smear China will only discredit themselves and let the world see their sinister intentions.

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