Top China Diplomat Defends Crackdown in Muslim Minority Region
- Wang Yi says Xinjiang anti-terror efforts are ‘domestic issue’
- Highest-level response to reports of mass internment camps
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China’s foreign minister defended a security crackdown effecting one of the country’s largest Muslim minorities as a necessary response to terrorism, in Beijing’s highest-level response yet to reports of mass interment camps.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters Tuesday that conditions in the remote western region of Xinjiang were a “domestic issue” and cautioned foreigners against believing “gossip and hearsay” about the situation. Wang was asked about the reports during a visit to Beijing by German counterpart Heiko Maas.