Whenever US talks of human rights, it's a sign that it's up to no good

By signing a bill into law on Wednesday mandating sanctions on those his administration claims are responsible for the "oppression of Muslims" in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the US president has once again demonstrated the willingness of the world's sole superpower to blatantly interfere in the internal affairs of another sovereign country－as well as its hypocrisy and double talk.

The fact that the US leader issued a signing statement that some of the bill's requirements might limit his constitutional authority to conduct diplomacy so he would regard them as advisory, not mandatory, suggests that it is simply another tool to be used against China as and when convenient.

But what puts the United States'"Uygur Human Rights Policy Act" to shame is the fact that China's relentless efforts to fight against terrorism, extremism and separatism in Xinjiang, including the education centers that Washington has called detention camps, are meant to protect the human rights of local residents of different ethnic groups.