Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian urged all sides to take a close look and find out which country is the "empire of lies" after the US said China fabricated quotes from US diplomats on Xinjiang.
Beijing and Washington are locked in another round of narrative wars over an unsubstantiated claim that US diplomats had admitted human rights issues in Xinjiang were made up to undermine China. In a statement emailed on Tuesday (June 7), a spokesperson for the US embassy urged China to stop attributing false statements to American officials that could make them targets.
China has demanded the United States give a reasonable explanation about U.S. diplomats reportedly acknowledging that Washington has hyped up issues related to the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in an attempt to contain China.
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