The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called on the United States to stop using double standards on human rights issues.

Speaking at a regular press briefing in Beijing, spokesperson Wang Wenbin said China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has seen social stability, economic development and religious harmony and that the human rights of people of all ethnic groups, including the Uygurs, are fully protected.

Wang made the remarks in a rebuke of claims by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

"There is no conflict in Xinjiang. It is Gaza where there is conflict," said Wang. "Muslims in Xinjiang are not suffering from hunger, expulsion or killing. It is millions of Muslims in Gaza who are suffering from hunger, expulsion and killing."

The U.S. should stop applying double standards on human rights issues, stop performing political shows on human rights issues in Gaza, and stop its own obstructing the efforts by the United Nations Security Council to promote a ceasefire in Gaza, said Wang.

The U.S. should not make false and empty statements on Ramadan but take concrete actions to save the lives of Muslims in Gaza, he said.

(Cover: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin. /CFP)