Foreign Desk Report
CAIRO: The United States is fabricating false claims regarding China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in a smear campaign, and using it as a tool to hamper China’s development, said a prominent Egyptian politician in a recent interview.
“The United States sees China as a strong barrier in the way of its dream to continue unilaterally leading the world, and therefore it tries to disrupt China’s progress with such false allegations,” said Ahmed Bahaa El-Din Shaaban, secretary-general of the Egyptian Socialist Party.
“They never look for facts, but they would rather fake issues about the situation in Xinjiang,” Shaaban said, referring to the U.S. claims as “lies that we have become accustomed to in our region.”
“It is surprising that Washington launches such accusations while it is the United States that exercises racism against African Americans, committed crimes against humanity during its invasion of Iraq,” he said. The Egyptian politician noted that he has visited China in recent years, and learned and read a lot about the development and the improvement of life in Xinjiang.
