‘We’re a people destroyed’: why Uighur Muslims across China are living in fear Read more“Their religious beliefs are decimated,” Pompeo said. Pompeo also expressed concern about the fate of Christians in China, who he said had been targeted in a government crackdown. The government, he said, has been “closing churches, burning Bibles and ordering followers to sign papers renouncing their faith”. In an interview earlier in the week, Pompeo had described China as a greater threat to the United States than Russia, saying that Beijing was a “non-transparent government”. “It treats our intellectual property horribly, it treats its religious minorities horribly,” he told Fox News.

Source: The Guardian September 22, 2018 02:26 UTC