The Chinese Embassy in Nairobi has hit back at the US over its sanctions against China following reports of human right abuses in Xinjiang.
The US joined other European countries including Britain and Canada in imposing sanctions on Chinese officials and Beijing has not taken it lightly.
Two days ago, Beijing through the Chinese Embassy in Kenya hit out at the US for condemning it against the attacks reported in Xinjiang.
The Embassy questioned why the US overlooks its flaws and sees those in China.
It revisited the gruesome death of George Floyd and asked why the US has the audacity to talk about human right abuses yet it violated them in the case of the black man’s death last year.
“George Floyds (sic) still can’t breathe. Who and what right on earth are the West protecting?” the Chinese Embassy in Kenya questioned.
Earlier, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying castigated the West citing that they are hypocritical.
“It’s never human rights nor truth that they care about the just do not want to see China’s success development and better livelihood,” she told the press according to dotdotnews.com.
Chunying added that there is no democracy at all in the US today even as the West continues castigating China.
“In the US today, people like George Floyd still can’t breathe. As early as the beginning of the 20th century, German colonists slaughtered indigenous Namibian tribes.
“During WWII Nazi German slaughtered almost six million Jews. The US, the UK and their allies brutally killed innocent civilians in Afghanistan,” she said in a rejoinder.
Two Chinese officials were sanctioned but the US and other European countries for allegedly perpetrating grave human rights abuses against ethnic minorities and Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province.
The US termed this as crime against humanity which Beijing will bear consequences for.
In a statement, US Treasury Department’s Director Andrea Gacki said “The United States reiterates its calls on the People’s Republic of China to bring an end to the repression of Uyghurs, who are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang, including by releasing all those arbitrarily held in internment camps and detention facilities.”
