The U.S. State Department highlighted the deteriorating human rights record in China, accusing the regime of committing “genocide” and “crimes against humanity” in a newly released report. The annual report, covering the human rights conditions last year across roughly 200 countries, used more assertive language on the Beijing regime’s suppression in the Xinjiang region. It said that such crimes “occurred during the year against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang” and “were continuing.” “The trend lines on human rights continue to move in the wrong direction,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a speech to introduce the report on March 30, noting the Xinjiang abuse among a list of other rights violations around the world. “We will bring to bear all the tools of our diplomacy, to defend human rights and hold accountable perpetrators of abuse,” Blinken said. The toolbox, he said, …