On Last Day, Pompeo Accuses China of Genocide to Help Biden with a Smooth Foreign Policy Transition

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On his way out the door, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out anew at China on Tuesday by declaring that its policies on Muslims and ethnic minorities in the western Xinjiang region constitute “crimes against humanity” and a “genocide.”

 

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I liked it better when he said that multiculturalism is not a part of the USA.

 

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Minutes after the inauguration, China sanctions multiple Trump no-longer-officials.

In a statement that accused those sanctioned of “crazy moves” and “hatred against China,” Beijing slapped former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, 2016 Trump campaign chairman Steven Bannon, and former National Security Advisers John Bolton and Robert C. O’Brien with penalties.

The sanctions bar the officials from traveling to China, Macau, and Hong Kong, and prevent them from doing business with the same. Economic adviser and trade war architect Peter Navarro and former HHS Secretary Alex Azar are also on the list of those sanctioned.

 

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On his way out the door, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out anew at China on Tuesday by declaring that its policies on Muslims and ethnic minorities in the western Xinjiang region constitute “crimes against humanity” and a “genocide.”

Pompeo seems to have set a very strange precedent.

A U.N. report on human rights abuses in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, released late Wednesday after months of unexplained delays, concludes that China’s actions “may” constitute international crimes, particularly crimes against humanity.

The report by U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet came in the final minutes of her last day on the job and ended speculation that it might never become public.

The 46-page report looked at many dimensions of a years-long campaign and found evidence that “serious human rights violations” were committed under the guise of counterterrorism and counterextremism.

The report found that mass detention in Xinjiang from 2017 to 2019 was “marked by patterns of torture.” There also were “serious indications of violations of reproductive rights through the coercive and discriminatory enforcement of family planning and birth control policies.” Accounts of sexual violence were “credible.”