Biden to urge G7 allies to hold China accountable for human rights abuses: report

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President Biden and the six other world leaders attending the G7 summit in England this weekend will shift the conversation on Saturday to the fight against from China growing international influence and hold it accountable for its human rights violations. The conference includes leaders from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.

Countries are expected to sign a new investment initiative, called an “infrastructure bank,” to channel billions of dollars in financing to support the economic development of small countries. A major condition of the effort would be to prohibit any recourse to forced labor.

On Sunday, the final day of the summit, Biden plans to pressure leaders to firmly condemn human rights abuses and exploitation of forced labor in a unified voice, an anonymous senior administration official told reporters, according to the Associated press.

“We insist on being specific about areas like Xinjiang where forced labor takes place,” the official said. In Xinjang in particular, a territory in northwestern China, the Chinese regime has been accused of expelling tens of thousands of Uyghur Muslim minorities from their homes and transferring them to factories in nine provinces for the purposes of industrial, in particular for electronics, textiles and automobiles. Since 2017, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has detained more than 1.8 million Uyghur Muslims in re-education camps.

“We believe it is essential to denounce the use of forced labor,” the official noted, “and to take concrete steps to ensure that global supply chains are free from forced labor.”

The Chinese government has also reportedly carried out abirth control campaign, including forced sterilization and abortion, against Uyghur women for limiting the group’s reproduction in a way reminiscent of China’s infamous “one-child policy”. The CCP has also used family separation and torture against these minority populations while denying allegations of inhuman treatment or wrongdoing.

In a phone call Friday with a Chinese counterpart, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed the urgency to tackle what he called “ongoing. genocide and ethnic cleansing ”of Chinese minorities in Xinjiang, according to Reuters.

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