Editor's note: William Jones is the Washington bureau chief for Executive Intelligence Review and a non-resident fellow of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.

The U.S. Congress is really going overboard these days in its China-bashing fervor. With the obsession on foreign policy issues these days, with Russia, China and Ukraine seemingly topping their agenda, they seem to have little time for the issues of importance to the American people.

While congressmen's posturing about alleged Chinese technology theft or Russian interference in U.S. elections will win them kudos from the foreign policy "wonks" in the Washington think-tanks, they will not gain much traction among their constituents, waiting eagerly for an infrastructure bill, a jobs bill, or medical insurance reform.

The latest China-bashing measure, the alleged Uygur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response Act of 2019, which has flown through both Houses without a tad of opposition, is a ludicrous measure that could have a deleterious effect on the still-ongoing war on terror.

The bill would allow Congress to sanction those Chinese officials who are purported to be involved in the so-called "detention camps" in Xinjiang and calls on the President to call on the Chinese Government to close the camps. A measure added by the House would also prevent the sale of goods to Chinese state entities operating in Xinjiang.

While the measure directly targets China, it also targets the President of the United States in his attempt to achieve a trade deal with China and to reestablish a working relationship between the U.S. and China. But also in this instance, the measure may very well provide "aid and comfort" to some groups the U.S. has been fighting in its "war on terror".

The measures that the Chinese government have taken in Xinjiang, which don't include, as the media claims, preventing people from practicing their religion or speaking their native language (there are tens of ethnic groups in Xinjiang with their own languages), or practicing their culture.

Anyone who has traveled to Xinjiang recently would have a hard time not seeing, or even participating in, some native dances or hearing the native music that is the common heritage among the various ethnic groups in Xinjiang, things that would be banned by Islamic fundamentalists.