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Trump Weighs Cracking Down On China Over Uighur Camps; Beijing Promises ‘Consequences’

Tim Pearce
Trump Weighs Cracking Down On China Over Uighur Camps; Beijing Promises ‘Consequences’
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President Trump signed legislation on Wednesday to potentially sanction China over human rights abuses regarding its internment of ethnic Uighurs.

Trump signed the bill after former national security adviser John Bolton claimed that the president encouraged Chinese President Xi Jinping to expand the internment camps during bilateral trade negotiations in June 2019. Trump has denied the accusation made in Bolton’s upcoming memoir, “The Room Where It Happened.”

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