The Canadian parliament took action Tuesday to declare China&#8217;s treatment of the Uyghurs a &#8220;genocide&#8221; while President Joe Biden continues to fail to do so.
The motion passed with a 266 — 0 vote and &#8220;was supported by all opposition parties and a handful of lawmakers from the governing Liberal Party. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and most members of his cabinet abstained,&#8221; as reported by the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56163220">BBC</a>.
Canadian lawmakers also reportedly passed an amendment requesting Canada to call on the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Winter Olympics out of Beijing &#8220;if the Chinese government continues this genocide.&#8221;
Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) has also introduced a measure asking the United States to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-congressman-introduces-measure-urging-u-s-to-boycott-2022-winter-olympics-in-china">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
Canada&#8217;s action makes it the second country to declare China&#8217;s offenses as genocide, after the United States did so at the end of the Trump administration.
According to The New York Times&#8217; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/us/politics/trump-china-xinjiang.html">report</a> on Jan. 19, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement, “I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uighurs by the Chinese party-state,”  adding that Chinese officials were “engaged in the forced assimilation and eventual erasure of a vulnerable ethnic and religious minority group.”
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/us/politics/trump-china-xinjiang.html">The Times</a> pointed out that Biden released a statement in August calling China&#8217;s action &#8220;genocide&#8221; and reportedly &#8220;pressed the president to do the same.&#8221;
Since taking office, Biden has done little to speak out against China&#8217;s abuses of the Uyghurs even as details continue to be revealed of the ongoing dehumanization of over one million people belonging to the mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic group in China&#8217;s reeducation camps. Earlier this month, reporting by the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55794071">BBC</a> included first-hand account allegations of violent, mass systematic rape and torture in the camps.
According to a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-canada-trudeau/china-condemns-canadas-motion-calling-treatment-of-uighurs-genocide-idUSKBN2AN0LO">Reuters</a> report, &#8220;China said on Tuesday that it condemned and rejected Canada’s parliament passing a non-binding motion saying China’s treatment of Uighurs is genocide.&#8221; Its report also included the fact that the foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular briefing that China had lodged &#8220;stern representations&#8221; with Canada.
Biden was recently criticized for his apparent lack to label China&#8217;s actions as &#8220;genocide,&#8221; even as his Secretary of State Antony Blinken did so late last month.
“My judgment remains that genocide was committed against the Uighurs and that hasn’t changed,” Blinken <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-blinken/new-u-s-secretary-of-state-favors-cooperation-with-china-despite-genocide-of-uighurs-idUSKBN29W2RC">said</a>.
However, the president has not followed suit, and even explicitly avoided condemning the human rights violations at a recent town hall event.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-fact-checkers-twist-themselves-in-knots-defending-bidens-town-hall-disaster">The Daily Wire</a> reported last week:
<blockquote>During the same town hall event, Biden stoked outrage on social media when he seemingly referred to the human rights violations against the Uyghur population in China as a “different norm.”
“If you know anything about Chinese history, it has always been, the time when China has been victimized by the outer world is when they haven’t been unified at home,” Biden said, <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/02/17/biden-says-uighur-genocide-is-part-of-chinas-different-norms/">according</a> to The New York Post. “So the central — well, vastly overstated — the central principle of Xi Jinping is that there must be a united, tightly-controlled China. And he uses his rationale for the things he does based on that.”
“I point out to him no American president can be sustained as a president, if he doesn’t reflect the values of the United States,” the president continued. “And so the idea is that I am not going to speak out against what he’s doing in Hong Kong, what he’s doing with the Uyghurs in western mountains of China and Taiwan — trying to end the one China policy by making it forceful… [Xi] gets it.”
“Culturally there are different norms that each country and their leaders are expected to follow,” Biden added.  </blockquote>
As reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-biden-live-updates-2-24-2021">Fox News</a>, Biden did not mention China&#8217;s human rights offenses during his virtual meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday, instead saying that the two countries are coordinating &#8220;approaches to better compete with China and to counter threats to our interests and values.&#8221;
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On Friday, asked about the decision by President Joe Biden to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=3797150000344802&amp;ref=watch_permalink">touted</a> the “alignment” between himself and Biden as well as Canadians and Biden, saying they were “much more aligned on values.”
A reporter asked, “Can you tell us more about your conversations with the premiers last night over Keystone XL and your chat with President Biden today? What were some of the specific measures or some of the specific points the premiers want you to make to Biden? What were they telling you about what Biden was doing, the president was doing? Can you give us a sense of sort of their mood about this decision which obviously some of them would not have been pleased about?”
“The call with the ministers, which lasted just over an hour, included discussions on the raging coronavirus pandemic but was dominated by the president’s order, which was signed just a day earlier,&#8221; <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/7594940/trudeau-biden-chat-keystone-disappointment/">Global News</a> reported. &#8220;According to aides who participated in the meeting, ‘some premiers want to go to war with the United States over the Keystone XL cancellation. The aides, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that the discussion ‘got pretty heated.’”
After noting that some Canadians would lose jobs as a result of the Keystone XL cancellation, Trudeau answered the reporter, &#8220;I think the fact that we have so much alignment not just me and President Biden, but Canadians and President Biden on values of creating jobs and prosperity for everyone and opportunities for everyone, investing in the fight against climate change as a way of growing the economy, looking to be coordinated and aggressive in stepping up in our measures against COVID-19. These are things that we&#8217;re going to be able to dig into significantly.”
“It&#8217;s not always going to be perfect alignment with the United States, that&#8217;s the case with any given president,” he added, “In a situation where we are much more aligned on values, on focus, on work that needs to be done to give opportunities for everyone while we build a better future. I&#8217;m very much looking forward to working with President Biden.&#8221;
Yet later in the day, Trudeau reportedly voiced his displeasure with Biden’s decision about Keystone XL. The White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/22/readout-of-president-joe-biden-call-with-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-of-canada/">website</a> stated, “The President acknowledged Prime Minister Trudeau’s disappointment regarding the decision to rescind the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.”
One of Biden&#8217;s first executive orders after taking office was to rejoin the Paris Accords, <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/20/paris-climate-agreement/">announcing</a> on January 21, &#8220;I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the Paris Agreement, done at Paris on December 12, 2015, do hereby accept the said Agreement and every article and clause thereof on behalf of the United States of America.&#8221;
Trudeau signed the Paris Accords in 2016. In June 2017, after former President Trump left the agreement, Trudeau <a href="https://www.globalcitizen.org/de/content/trudeau-to-trump-paris-agreement-3/">stated</a>, &#8220;We are deeply disappointed that the United States federal government has decided to withdraw from the Paris agreement.&#8221;
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