{"id":1354863,"date":"2022-03-02T12:09:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1354863"},"modified":"2022-03-02T12:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:32:04","slug":"exclusive-east-turkistan-leader-biden-sotu-a-huge-disappointment-for-uyghurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-east-turkistan-leader-biden-sotu-a-huge-disappointment-for-uyghurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2013 East Turkistan Leader: Biden SOTU a &#8216;Huge Disappointment for Uyghurs&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-east-turkistan-leader-biden-sotu-a-huge-disappointment-for-uyghurs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1354863&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/china-prison-640x335-1.png\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The prime minister of the East Turkistan government in exile, Salih Hudayar, lamented late Tuesday night the complete absence of any mention of the ongoing genocide of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim people by China in President Joe Biden\u2019s State of the Union address, listing several things Biden could have announced to help the oppressed people.<\/p>\n<p>China \u2013 America\u2019s largest geopolitical rival and a rogue state engaging in a litany of human rights abuses, including the genocide of the Uyghur people \u2013 was largely absent from Biden\u2019s speech. Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/01\/sotu-biden-putin-china\/\">mentioned<\/a> China three times, framing it as an economic and strategic competitor, not a national security threat or a menace to international human rights. In contrast, Biden opened the speech discussing Russia, spending about ten minutes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/01\/full-text-president-joe-bidens-state-of-the-union-address\/\">condemning<\/a> the \u201cmenacing ways\u201d of strongman Vladimir Putin. Biden mentioned Chinese dictator Xi Jinping only once, in the context of promoting his costly infrastructure plan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAs I\u2019ve told Xi Jinping, it is never a good bet to bet against the American people,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Biden mentioned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky twice and Putin 12 times.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted to social media, Hudayar noted that Biden spent a significant portion of his time as a presidential candidate condemning former President Donald Trump for not doing enough to save the Uyghur people, and has now failed to use his largest annual platform to champion their cause.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDuring the elections, Joe Biden vowed to stand against China\u2019s ongoing GENOCIDE against Uyghurs\/Turkic peoples in Occupied East Turkistan in the \u2018strongest terms,&#8217;\u201d Hudayar recalled, \u201cbut as [president] he failed to even address the issue in his State of the Union address. Huge disappointment for Uyghurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">During the elections <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoeBiden<\/a> vowed to stand against China\u2019s ongoing GENOCIDE against Uyghurs\/Turkic peoples in Occupied East Turkistan in the \u201cstrongest terms,\u201d but as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> he failed to even address the issue in his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StateOfTheUnionAddress?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StateOfTheUnionAddress<\/a>. Huge disappointment for Uyghurs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2CXEOJbjXU\">pic.twitter.com\/2CXEOJbjXU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Salih Hudayar (@SalihHudayar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SalihHudayar\/status\/1498869928291713031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Breitbart News reached out to Hudayar on Monday night asking what he would have wanted to see from Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the very least he could have mentioned that the U.S. would take strong measures to hold China\u2019s leaders, including Xi Jinping, accountable for the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity against the Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples of East Turkistan,\u201d Hudayar said. He added that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has refused to address the Uyghur genocide and pressure from the United States could potentially help change that. The ICC has repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/12\/11\/icc-not-enough-evidence-exists-uyghur-genocide-case\/\">claimed<\/a>\u00a0that insufficient evidence exists to accuse China of genocide, despite international human rights lawyers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/09\/tribunal-olympics-host-china-beyond-a-reasonable-doubt-guilty-of-genocide\/\">compiling<\/a> satellite images of concentration camps, interviews with concentration camp victims testifying to brutal torture and sterilization, internal Chinese documents revealing genocidal intent, and other key evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ICC is opening a probe over the Ukraine-Russia war due to significant international attention and pressure but has so far refrained to investigate China,\u201d Hudayar told Breitbart News. \u201cThe U.S. could call on the ICC to investigate China and it could bring the East Turkistan issue to the agenda of the UN Security Council even if China vetoes it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Biden leveraged the Uyghur genocide as an issue during the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unspeakable oppression that Uighurs and other ethnic minorities have suffered at the hands of China\u2019s authoritarian government is genocide and Joe Biden stands against it in the strongest terms,\u201d the Biden campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/usa_both-biden-trump-condemn-chinas-treatment-uighur-muslims\/6195044.html\">declared<\/a>\u00a0in August 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Following his election, then-nominee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, was quick to use the term \u201cgenocide\u201d to describe the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s policies in East Turkistan, a region the Party refers to by the name \u201cXinjiang.\u201d Biden himself, however, mused during a CNN event in February 2021 that Xi had a \u201crationale\u201d for oppressing Muslim-majority groups in occupied East Turkistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you know anything about Chinese history, it has always been the time China has been victimized by the outer world is when they haven\u2019t been unified at home. It\u2019s vastly overstated, but the center of principle of Xi Jinping is that there must be a united, tightly controlled China,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/02\/17\/biden-chinas-xi-jinping-gets-it-american-presidents-must-speak-up-for-human-rights\/\">contended<\/a>, responding to a question at a town hall about the Uyghur genocide. \u201cAnd he uses his rationale for the things he does based on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden claimed that he explained to Xi during a conversation that domestic pressure was the only reason that he mentioned human rights in China to him at all, and that Xi \u201cgets it\u201d that Biden does not have the political bandwidth to avoid confrontation on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI point out to him no American president can be sustained as a president if he doesn\u2019t reflect the values of the United States,\u201d Biden said. \u201cSo, the idea that I\u2019m not going to speak out against what he\u2019s doing in Hong Kong, what he\u2019s doing with the Uyghurs in Western Mountains of China, and Taiwan, trying to end the one-China policy by making it forceful. I said, and he gets it, culturally there are different norms in each country, and their leaders are expected to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Extensive evidence compiled by human rights groups and foreign governments suggests that China began building concentration camps for Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz people, and other non-Han ethnic groups in East Turkistan in 2017. At their peak, according to the U.S. government, the camps housed up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2019\/05\/06\/feds-china-muslim-crackdown-number-detainees-may-have-tripled-less-than-1-year\/\">3 million<\/a> people. Survivors of the camps say they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/02\/04\/witnesses-chinese-concentration-camp-victims-endured-gang-rapes-electric-batons\/\">experienced<\/a> extreme torture, systematic rape, communist indoctrination, and medical testing consistent with live organ harvesting.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of the concentration camps, China has developed an extensive security state in East Turkistan, flooding cities with cameras, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2017\/02\/21\/xinjiang-china-gps-cars-mandatory\/\">mandating<\/a> government GPS tracking on all cars, and flooding mosques and other community centers with communist propaganda.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1646222468875000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1__ppp1QWv9eqrKmuj9YvV\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1646222468875000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3pB323zxHDBfaVfWisSYER\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister of the East Turkistan government in exile, Salih Hudayar, lamented late Tuesday night the complete absence of any mention of the ongoing genocide of Uyghurs and other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}