It's the fucking US state department lmao of course they're gonna say whatever bs they can. The point is that even they stopped short.

What they have done in Xinjiang after ETIM's attacks is built vocational training centres, infrastructure, and started integrating it better into the rest of China's economy, i.e the core material reasons why someone would have to resort to extremism in the first place. Which is a far better response than other countries and has been successful, hence the muslim and global south countries approving of it.

frankly, the US is STILL fighting in the middle east after 9/11. the chinese has shown more restraint and milder treatment towards their local terrorist group. so i'd say they've handled it better than the west ever could.