Donald Trump hears ‘tough’ details of China’s Xinjiang camps as he meets detained Uygur scholar Ilham Tohti’s daughter.
United States President Donald Trump met victims of religious persecution from around the world on Wednesday, including one Uygur woman and three other people from China.
Beijing calls the camps “vocational training centres”, a claim that was recently undermined when scholarly research unearthed official documents detailing evidence of coercive internment and political brainwashing. Trump appeared not to know in detail about the internment camps in Xinjiang – which are believed to have begun in early 2017 – asking Ilham where in China the camps were located.
The White House meeting came as the US administration hosted its second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, a three-day gathering in Washington of religious leaders, government officials and victims of faith-based persecution from around the world. In recent weeks a cleft has formed through the international community in response to China’s mass internment programmes in Xinjiang. Soon after 22 mostly European members of the United Nations Human Rights Council signed a letter condemning the camps in July, the foreign ambassadors of 37 other countries issued a rebuttal in support of Beijing’s policies in the region.
At the same time, however, the US administration has held up economic sanctions against Chinese officials over the camps for fear of derailing progress in trade negotiations with Beijing.
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