

Opinion
SCMP Columnist
On Balance by Robert Delaney
As Xinjiang makes international news, China’s counterattacks against the US miss the mark
- Beijing is right that US history is far from blameless and Washington is overzealous in labelling China a ‘threat’
- That doesn’t change the fact that its Xinjiang policies are indefensible and will only make it more vulnerable to terrorist attacks
Updated: 4:38am, 10 Dec, 2019
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Robert Delaney is the Post’s North America bureau chief. He spent 11 years in China as a language student and correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg, and continued covering the country as a correspondent and an academic after leaving. His debut novel, The Wounded Muse, draws on actual events that played out in Beijing while he lived there.