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Biden says China to face repercussions on human rights

Published 02/16/2021, 10:33 PM
Updated 02/16/2021, 11:15 PM
© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee

© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee

By Jeff Mason

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Reuters) - China will pay a price for its human rights abuses, U.S. President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday, responding to queries at a televised event on the Asian nation's handling of Muslim minorities in its far western region of Xinjiang.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has drawn global criticism for holding the minority Uighurs in internment camps and other human rights abuses.

"Well, there will be repercussions for China and he knows that," Biden said of Xi, when pressed on the issue at the town hall event televised on broadcaster CNN.

The United States will reassert its global role in speaking up for human rights, Biden said, adding that he would work with the international community to get China to protect them.

"China is trying very hard to become a world leader and to get that moniker and be able to do that they have to gain the confidence of other countries," Biden said on his first official trip since taking office as president in January.

"As long as they are engaged in activity that is contrary to basic human rights, it is going to be hard for them to do that," he added.

In a two hour phone call with Xi this month, Biden emphasized the U.S. priority of preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific region, where the United States and China are major strategic rivals.

© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall in Milwaukee

He also voiced concern about Beijing’s "coercive and unfair" trade practices and rights issues, such as its Hong Kong crackdown, the Xinjiang internments, and increasingly assertive actions in Asia, including toward Taiwan, which China claims as its own.

Latest comments

American is the world saviour.. Wow.. What happened to capitol ending?
Why not we demand the same trillion dollar from India for his voilation of human rights in Illegally occupied Kashmir
Now the international comunity do not trust US. The are much worried about the legitimate citizens and lawful territory of Chain, but not ready to impose sanctions on India for its unlawful occupancy at Kashmir and serious human right voilation on Kashmiri Muslims. They people are not citizens of India.
Human rights my foot.. So what happen to capitol story? Who is the master mind? So proud boys got the blame... 😂
When China is protecting people'life, America is protecting people's voice while losing lives. Taiwan has always been a part of China. What America did to Huawei, is real unfair trade.
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