China on Monday urged the United States to safeguard the legal rights of ethnic minorities, with protests escalating nationwide in the wake of the alleged killing of a black man by a white police officer last week in Minneapolis."The racial discrimination suffered by minorities in the United States is a chronic illness" in the country, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters, calling on Washington to urgently solve such a problem.At least 40 cities have imposed curfews, including the U.S. capital, and state military forces have been activated in many places to quell th…READ FULL ARTICLE