Emily Horne, a spokeswoman for the Biden-led National Security Council, said Monday, Jan. 25, that Biden has acknowledged that the Chinese Communist Party committed “genocide” against the Xinjiang Uighur people in Xinjiang.
Horne said, “Biden has consistently referred to the Chinese Communist Party’s repression of the Uighurs in Xinjiang as genocide, and he has condemned it in the harshest terms.”
On the Xinjiang issue, Biden’s position is consistent with the Trump administration’s views. Trump Administration Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced last Tuesday (Jan. 19) that just as the Nazis committed genocide against the Jews during the Holocaust, the Chinese Communist Party has committed genocide against the Uighur people.
The Trump administration has also found the Chinese Communist Party guilty of Crimes Against Humanity in Xinjiang, where it detained more than 1 million Uighurs in concentration camps, forced them to work hard and tortured them, and forced Uighur women to undergo sterilization.
Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, Anthony Blink, also said Jan. 19 that he believes former President Trump was right to be tough on the Chinese Communist Party and agrees with the Trump administration’s identification of the Chinese Communist Party.
If it were me, I would make that determination,” Blink said. I think we’re pretty much in agreement on that. The kind of practice of holding people in concentration camps and re-educating them and forcing them to conform to Communist ideology is genocide.”
The U.N. defines genocide as “the systematic and widespread genocide of a racial, ethnic, religious or national group or groups of persons, whether systematic or not.”
Media analysts say that while this finding does not impose automatic punitive measures on those who commit the crime, it may lead to more companies and countries demanding transparency from the CCP regarding its treatment of ethnic minorities.
Although the CCP refuses to acknowledge its crimes in Xinjiang, its practice of repressing Uighurs in Xinjiang through its massive concentration camps and surveillance system and forcing Uighur women to be sterilized is well documented and has been condemned by the international community.
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