Pompeo sowing discord with Xinjiang’s remarks

Bloomberg

China said US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo was attempting to “sow discord” with recent comments about its policy toward Muslim Uighurs in its far west region of Xinjiang, treatment that has been widely criticised by foreign governments and rights groups.
Pompeo said Beijing’s campaign against the Uighurs was an “attempt to erase its own citizens” and urged countries to resist China’s demands to repatriate them, Reuters reported.
Central Asian countries “know better than the US the real situation in Xinjiang and people there enjoy a harmonious and happy life and religious beliefs,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters in Beijing.
“Mr Pompeo is now barking up the wrong tree and trying to sow discord between China and the central Asian countries.”