EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell
As more and more revelations of the Chinese Communist Party‘s persecution of people in Xinjiang emerge, Josep Borrell, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, called on Tuesday (23) for the Chinese government to allow investigators to travel to Xinjiang to investigate, but U.S. President Joe Biden has been silent, even on the characterization of the Chinese Communist Party’s genocide of Xinjiang.
The BBC reported this month that women in Xinjiang’s concentration camps were systematically raped, sexually abused and tortured. The EU has urged the CCP to grant access to independent observers to investigate reports of secret detention camps, forced sterilization and political indoctrination.
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Borrelli on Tuesday called on the Chinese Communist Party to grant “meaningful access” to UN investigators and must assist in investigations into reports of human rights violations against Uighurs.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet wants to send a U.N. team to Xinjiang to investigate.
On Monday, the Canadian Parliament passed a motion finding the Chinese Communist Party guilty of genocide against the Uighurs in Xinjiang, which will put a lot of pressure on the government, although the motion is not binding on it. Canada‘s Uighur community expressed relief and hope that Ottawa will take more substantive action to sanction the Chinese Communist Party. Canada’s House of Commons also passed an amendment Monday asking the government to call on the International Olympic Committee not to let Beijing host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Turkey and Britain also called on the U.N. Human Rights Council this week to try to resolve the Xinjiang issue.
The Trump administration declared the Communist Party’s actions genocide the day before it left office. Biden, who vowed to get tough on the Chinese Communist Party during his presidential campaign, has not characterized the Communist Party’s human rights violations in Xinjiang as genocide since he took office.
In a video meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday, Biden did not mention Chinese Communist Party human rights abuses at all. He said the U.S. and Canada are working together to find ways to “better compete with the Chinese Communist Party” and to address threats to its interests and values.
Fox News reported that the White House did not respond to media requests for comment on whether the two leaders discussed addressing genocide committed by the Chinese Communist Party during their meeting Tuesday.
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