U.S. President Donald Trump this week approved a law authorizing sanctions against Chinese officials over their treatment of the Uygur ethnic community in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Beijing criticized the law, saying China is only looking to combat terrorism in the western region.

"Each country has the right to provide a peaceful development environment for its people," Said Fayaz Kiyani, a senior Pakistani political commentator.

Kiyani said because of the Chinese government's measures in combating extremism and separatist forces, Xinjiang has seen no occurrence of terrorism cases in the past three years.

"The anti-racism protest is continuing in the U.S., while it's failed in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic," Kiyani said. "All these have sparked public anger in the U.S. As the presidential election is approaching, the Trump administration is using this bill as a tool to shift domestic attention to the outside while jeopardizing stability in China."

"China's reactions on terrorism are normal," President of New Human Rights League Pierre Bercis said. "The U.S. is also a victim of terrorist attacks like the 9-11 incident. We have to say that the U.S. is viewing human rights differently."

Pierre Bercis also voiced concern about the human rights conditions in the U.S. "As we can see in the COVID-19 pandemic, the biggest groups of victims include the poor, and African Americans, they don't have access to proper social security. They have to pay to get treated," Bercis said.