Pompeo asks US business to think twice in China's Xinjiang

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked corporate America on Tuesday to think twice when doing business in China's Xinjiang region, where he appeared to liken the scale of mass incarceration of Muslims to Nazi abuses.

Speaking to a business group, Pompeo stopped short of asking firms not to work with China but said he hoped to spark further discussion on the "enormous risk" of doing business in the country.

"We watch the massive human rights violations in Xinjiang where over a million people are being held in a humanitarian crisis that is the scale of what took place in the 1930s," Pompeo said.

"And we see American businesses and their technology being used to help facilitate that activity from the Chinese government. It's something worthy of thinking about," the diplomatic chief said as he received an award from Business Executives for National Security.

Pompeo added that "I don't know the answer," recalling that as a business owner and a conservative Republican he opposes government ...