Pompeo designates China’s treatment of Uighurs an ‘act of genocide’
In a parting shot as he prepares to leave office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused China of a state-sanctioned “genocide” of its Uighur population in the Xinjiang province. “We are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uighurs by the Chinese party-state,” Pompeo wrote in a statement Tuesday. The U.S. is now the first state to accuse […]