China called on the US to hand over a group of ethnic Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay rather than send them to the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, which has offered to resettle them. The strong reaction from Beijing, which says the 17 Uighurs are members of an insurgent group operating in far western China, came one day after Palau said it had agreed to take them in temporarily. China pressed its demand that these Uighurs should be sent back to China. It urged the US to implement the UN Security Council’s relevant resolutions and its international obligations on counter-terrorism. China also opposed any third country taking these terrorist suspects.