'Something close' to genocide in China's Xinjiang, says U.S. security adviser

Protester HS2 wanted jailed gets suspended sentence Emily Ratajkowski’s book of essays By David Brunnstrom à‚© Reuters/LEAH MILLIS National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien speaks during a press briefing at the White House WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. national security adviser said on Friday that China was perpetrating “something close to” a genocide with its treatment of Muslims in its Xinjiang region. “If not a genocide, something close to it going on in Xinjiang,” Robert O’Brien told an online event hosted by the Aspen Institute, while highlighting other Chinese crackdowns including one on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. The United States has…