Foreign Correspondent: Whatâs Really Going on with Chinaâs Uighurs?
Experts say U.S. officials are seeking enemies, not the truth.
In the final days of the Trump Administration, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denounced China for carrying out âgenocideâ against its Uighur minority. He accused the Communist Party of China of engaging in âforced assimilationâ and other crimes, providing a laundry list of alleged offenses but no proof. Â
Antony Blinken, Bidenâs Secretary of State, told a Senate committee that he agreed China was engaged in âgenocide.â
China faces a difficult question: How can it combat a ruthless minority of militants while not alienating the larger Muslim community?
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The comments come after former US president Donald Trump last month called the treatment of Uighurs living in China s Xinjiang genocide and crimes against humanity
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday that Canada and other countries are mulling labelling China s treatment of Uighurs a genocide.
The comments come after former US president Donald Trump last month called the treatment of Uighurs living in China s Xinjiang genocide and crimes against humanity.
Watch | It s a word that is extremely loaded and is certainly something that we should be looking at in the case of the Uighurs, Trudeau was quoted as saying by news agency AFP in a news conference.
57 countries have signed on to the statement, which puts pressure on countries such as China and Russia but needs to be bolstered by enforcement, human-rights advocates say
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