Pompeo's remarks about Xinjiang both ridiculous and irresponsible

It is ridiculous for US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to claim what China has done in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has nothing to do with terrorism and suggest it is an "attempt to erase its own citizens".

He even called on countries to resist China's demands to repatriate ethnic Uygurs when he met with the foreign ministers of five Central Asian countries - Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan - in New York ahead of the United Nations General Assembly annual session this week.

It seems he believes that the United States has the sole mandate to decide what is terrorism and what is not, and what actions are counterterrorism and what are not.