WASHINGTON 20 January, 2021, TON: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that China has committed genocide in its repression of the Uighurs and other Muslim people.

Anotony Blinken, Joe Biden’s choice for secretary of state said he agrees with his statement.

Human rights groups believe that up to a million Uighurs have been detained and arrested by China over the past years which the state define as re-education camps.

The media suggest that Uighurs are being manipulated for forced labor.

In a statement Mike Pompeo said that he believed the genocide is ongoing and that people are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uighurs by the Chinese party state.   

China has committed genocide in its repression of the Uighurs and other mainly Muslim peoples, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday in his last day at office as part of the Trump administration.

Although the statement puts pressure on China, it does not introduce any fresh penalties.

The same day, Mr. Blinken was asked about Pompeo’s remarks, to which he adhered to and said, “On the Uighurs I think we're very much in agreement. And the forcing of men, women and children into concentration camps, trying to, in effect, re-educate them to be adherents to the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party, all of that speaks to an effort to commit genocide."

He added: Mr. Biden's team made a similar allegation last August, saying the Uighurs had suffered "unspeakable oppression at the hands of China's authoritarian government".

This may be a final gift to China by the Trump administration, although the Xinjiang issue may not be a priority issue, rather a concrete policy stands on Xinjiang by the Biden team.