Trump says he held off Xinjiang sanctions against China
US President Donald Trump says he had held off sanctions against China for the repression of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. – EPA pic, June 22, 2020.
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has said he held off on imposing sanctions on Chinese officials over the mass incarceration of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang to protect US-China trade negotiations, according to an interview published on Sunday. Activists say China has rounded up at least one million Uighurs and other Turkic peoples and is trying to forcibly assimilate them by wiping out their culture and punishing basic Islamic practices.
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