FACT CHECK: Joe Biden Falsely Claims Trump Didn’t Stand Up to China on Human Rights
Joel B. Pollak25 Mar 2021340
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CLAIM: American presidents, with the exception of Donald Trump, stood up to China’s abuses of human rights.
VERDICT: FALSE. The Trump administration was the most aggressive to date on China’s human rights abuses.
President Joe Biden faced a question during his first White House press conference on Thursday about whether he would restrict imports from China that relied on slave labor. Biden responded by claiming that he had been telling Chinese leaders for years that “no American — at least one did — but no American president ever backed down from speaking out from what’s happening to the Uighurs, what’s happening to Hong Kong, what’s happening in country. That’s who we are. The moment a president walks away from that, as the last one did, is the moment we begin to lose our legitimacy around the world.â€
Biden’s claims are false. The Trump administration condemned China’s Uighur concentration camps in July 2018:
We are particularly troubled by reports of the Chinese government’s deepening crackdown on Uighurs and members of other Muslim minority groups in China, including: undue restrictions on freedom of religion; destruction of mosques; unprecedented levels of surveillance; efforts to pressure other governments into forcibly returning Uighurs to China or to coerce family members of Uighurs still in Xinjiang to encourage Uighurs living abroad to return; and the detention of hundreds of thousands, and possibly millions, of Uighurs and members of other Muslim minority groups in facilities ranging from makeshift holding centers to prisons, ostensibly for “political re-education,†in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. There are reports of deaths in these facilities. We call on the Chinese government to release immediately all those arbitrarily detained.
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