The U.S. Embassy to China accused the Chinese communist regime on June 7 of putting two diplomats in danger by attributing fake quotes to them about the human rights abuses of Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
On June 5, a social media user named Buyidao, who is associated with Chinese state media Global Times, posted that the then consul and head of the Economic and Political Section of the U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou Sheila Carey and Foreign Service Officer Andrew Chira told guests at a reception in 2021 that the U.S. government was “using the Xinjiang issue to hype up forced labor, genocide, and human rights abuses,” which is part of a “tug of war with China,” to “completely sink the Chinese government into a quagmire.”…