Unfounded, unwarranted and ill-willed

Maintaining peace and stability in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is in the interests of the people of all the 47 ethnic groups who live there. Which is why that is the government's bottom line. And why it has introduced measures, with vocational education and training centers as the core, to prevent vulnerable Uygurs living in remote areas from being brainwashed by secessionists and terrorists.

The US criticism of these stabilizers in Xinjiang is politically motivated, as indicated by its open endorsement of the so-called World Uygur Congress, and other secessionist organizations and figures related to Xinjiang.

When thousands of terrorist attacks happened in Xinjiang, before the establishment of the current comprehensive anti-terrorist mechanism, Washington lauded the terrorists as freedom fighters. Now that Xinjiang has restored its long-lost peace and prosperity - no violent incidents have happened in the past three years, and the local economy has grown by 40 percent over the past five years - Washington is using the anti-terrorism initiatives in Xinjiang as another excuse to censure Beijing.