July 29 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Beijing has denied this Friday that during the telephone call between the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and his American counterpart, Joe Biden, the situation in the Xinjiang region, in the northwest of the country, where the ethnic group resides to a greater extent, was discussed. Uyghur minority.
“I can tell you that the accusations of ‘genocide’ and ‘forced labor’ in Xinjiang are pure lies. You said that the White House press secretary claimed that ‘genocide’ and ‘forced labor’ came up on last night’s call. That is disinformation,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a press conference.
Specifically, he was referring to the words of the White House spokeswoman, Karine Jean-Pierre, who said this Friday that Biden raised Xi “genocide and forced labor practices by the People’s Republic of China.”
“That’s something he brought up, on human rights, as he always does. This is, as we’ve said, whenever the president has an opportunity, he brings it up when he meets with another leader. He called on China to stop committing human rights abuses,” he stressed.
Asked by journalists about the Chinese president’s reaction to this issue, the White House spokeswoman said at a press conference that “he cannot speak for Xi” and that, therefore, “he would have to answer on his own” to said question.
During the exchange between Biden and Xi, which lasted around two hours, according to the US network , both discussed, in what was their fifth conversation since February 2021, a variety of topics, from the tensions surrounding Taiwan to economic competition and the war in Ukraine, although according to China not the issue of the repression of this Muslim minority.
The Chinese authorities have launched a series of measures in the Xinjiang region that have caused friction between the Asian giant and the international community, especially the United States, which has come to accuse Beijing of committing human rights violations and even genocide. against the Uighur population.
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