US using Xinjiang to suppress China

The US Department of Commerce's blacklisting of 28 Chinese entities for being involved in what it alleges are "human rights violations and abuses" against Uygurs and other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang is anything but a justifiable act.

The move announced on Monday bars the 28 entities from purchasing US products, with United States Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross claiming that the US "cannot and will not tolerate the brutal suppression of ethnic minorities within China".

Again, the US is acting as the self-appointed "guardian of human rights" and as the global policeman although no one knows where it received the mandate to play such a role. If anything, only its status as the world's sole superpower has granted it such a fiat.