{"id":168051,"date":"2021-02-24T11:15:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=168051"},"modified":"2021-02-24T11:59:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:59:21","slug":"canadian-parliament-declares-chinas-treatment-of-uyghurs-genocide-as-biden-remains-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-parliament-declares-chinas-treatment-of-uyghurs-genocide-as-biden-remains-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Parliament Declares China\u2019s Treatment Of Uyghurs \u2018Genocide\u2019 As Biden Remains Silent"},"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%2Fcanadian-parliament-declares-chinas-treatment-of-uyghurs-genocide-as-biden-remains-silent%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=168051&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\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AEF02955-4DE7-4236-A234-5DE064D7EFE1_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Canadian parliament took action Tuesday to declare China\u2019s treatment of the Uyghurs a \u201cgenocide\u201d while President Joe Biden continues to fail to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The motion passed with a 266 \u2014 0 vote and \u201cwas 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,\u201d as reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-56163220\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cif the Chinese government continues this genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) has also introduced a measure asking the United States to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics, as\u00a0<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>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s action makes it the second country to declare China\u2019s offenses as genocide, after the United States did so at the end of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>According to The New York Times\u2019 <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, \u201cI believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uighurs by the Chinese party-state,\u201d\u00a0 adding that Chinese officials were \u201cengaged in the forced assimilation and eventual erasure of a vulnerable ethnic and religious minority group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><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\u2019s action \u201cgenocide\u201d and reportedly \u201cpressed the president to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since taking office, Biden has done little to speak out against China\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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, \u201cChina said on Tuesday that it condemned and rejected Canada\u2019s parliament passing a non-binding motion saying China\u2019s treatment of Uighurs is genocide.\u201d Its report also included the fact that the foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular briefing that China had lodged \u201cstern representations\u201d with Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Biden was recently criticized for his apparent lack to label China\u2019s actions as \u201cgenocide,\u201d even as his Secretary of State Antony Blinken did so late last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy judgment remains that genocide was committed against the Uighurs and that hasn\u2019t changed,\u201d 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>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the president has not followed suit, and even explicitly avoided condemning the human rights violations at a recent town hall event.<\/p>\n<p><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:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>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 \u201cdifferent norm.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf 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\u2019t been unified at home,\u201d 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. \u201cSo the central \u2014 well, vastly overstated \u2014 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.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\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 the president continued. \u201cAnd so the idea is that I am 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 \u2014 trying to end the one China policy by making it forceful\u2026 [Xi] gets it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCulturally there are different norms that each country and their leaders are expected to follow,\u201d Biden added. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>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\u2019s human rights offenses during his virtual meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday, instead saying that the two countries are coordinating \u201capproaches to better compete with China and to counter threats to our interests and values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian parliament took action Tuesday to declare China\u2019s treatment of the Uyghurs a \u201cgenocide\u201d while President Joe Biden continues to fail to do so. 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