We knew Trump didn't care for human rights in China. But this is a new low.

[Zorro]

STARTING IN 2017, a picture slowly began to emerge from China’s far northwest: compounds surrounded by watchtowers, no trees, high fences, and reports of people being taken away without due process or explanation. Eyewitnesses and family members described how China was building a string of concentration camps for its Uighur minority and others, incarcerating more than 1 million Turkic Muslims in an attempt to eradicate their culture, language and identity, one of the most appalling human rights abuses in the world today.

China’s leaders first denied the camps existed, then later claimed they were schools for vocational education. But the evidence piled up that they were camps intended to wipe out the Uighur Muslim identity through mind-numbing lessons in Mandarin and demands that the prisoners renounce their religion, conform to the ways of the majority Han Chinese and respect the ruling Communist Party.

On June 29 last year, President Trump met in Osaka, Japan, with President Xi Jinping of China. According to former national security adviser John Bolton, in a new memoir, Mr. Trump used the meeting to beg Mr. Xi to buy American farm products to help with his reelection. Mr. Xi also defended China’s camps in Xinjiang. “According to our interpreter,” Bolton writes, “Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do.” Mr. Trump has called Bolton’s book a “compilation of lies and made up stories.”

In the meeting with Mr. Trump, the Chinese president probably did not call them concentration camps, and we do not know exactly how Mr. Trump replied. Presumably, there are interpreters’ notes in both countries. But if Mr. Trump provided so much as a wink or green light to Mr. Xi’s grotesque project in cultural annihilation, it marks another moral low in his presidency.

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[napi21]

1. I believe Bolton. He's not much of a patriot for declining to testify before the house during

impeachment, but I DON'T believe he's a liar. It sounds just like DT to say that too. He was looking for a favor from Xi. I'm sure he told him he agreed with what he' doing.

[BigmanPigman]

2. He doesn't believe in human rights...in any country.