Intel: US uses Uighur crisis to sideline China in MidEast
The United States is highlighting China’s mass detention of some one million Muslim Uighurs in concentration camps as part of a bid to reduce Beijing’s diplomatic clout in the Middle East.
The United States is highlighting China’s mass detention of some one million Muslim Uighurs in concentration camps as part of a bid to reduce Beijing’s diplomatic clout in the Middle East.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo commended Bahrain’s Council of Representatives today for a statement it issued last week expressing “deep concern over the inhumane and painful conditions to which Uighur Muslims in China are subjected.”
“We’re happy with what Bahrain did and we ask all countries, particularly those belonging to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League, to denounce the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal treatment of Uighurs, which is part of the party’s broader war on faith,” Pompeo told reporters in Washington.
Pompeo’s remarks came after he spoke with Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa by phone on Monday following the US assassination of Iran's Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani.
