{"id":803041,"date":"2021-09-22T16:58:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T20:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=803041"},"modified":"2021-09-22T16:58:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T20:58:32","slug":"john-kerry-brushes-off-question-about-uyghur-genocide-pivots-to-climate-change-life-is-always-full-of-tough-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-kerry-brushes-off-question-about-uyghur-genocide-pivots-to-climate-change-life-is-always-full-of-tough-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kerry Brushes Off Question About Uyghur Genocide, Pivots To Climate Change: \u2018Life Is Always Full Of Tough Choices\u2019"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fjohn-kerry-brushes-off-question-about-uyghur-genocide-pivots-to-climate-change-life-is-always-full-of-tough-choices%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=803041&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><\/div>\n<p>Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry brushed off a question about human rights and China\u2019s treatment of Uyghurs during an interview Wednesday with Bloomberg\u2019s David Westin on the Biden administration\u2019s climate agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly a priority of the Biden administration is really addressing climate, but it\u2019s not the only priority,\u201d Westin noted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-09-22\/china-must-speed-up-emissions-cuts-u-s-climate-envoy-says\">interview<\/a>. \u201cThere are other things as well, such as the Uyghur situation in the west. What is the process by which one trades off climate against human rights?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, life is always full of tough choices in the relationship between nations,\u201d Kerry responded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Kerry: China Needs to Act Faster on Climate Change\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yRV8EIARYHI?start=586&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>He also likened President Joe Biden\u2019s push to cooperate with China on climate change to former President Ronald Reagan\u2019s success in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nti.org\/analysis\/articles\/reykjavik-summit-legacy\/\">reaching an arms reduction agreement<\/a> with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the Reykjav\u00edk Summit in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven as there were egregious human rights issues, which Ronald Reagan called them out on, we had to find a way forward to make the world safer,\u201d Kerry argued. \u201cWe can do and must do the same thing now. Yes, we have issues, a number of different issues, but first and foremost this planet must be protected.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/21\/john-kerry-wife-investment-hedge-fund-china-sec-oge-disclosure\/\">(RELATED: John Kerry\u2019s Wife Has Over $1 Million Investment In Hedge Fund With Ties To China, Records Show)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the hope is if our cooperation can come forward on this issue, that could perhaps open up the door to say, you know what, we did it there, let\u2019s see if we can find a way to deal with cyber or deal with nuclear or deal with some of these other issues,\u201d he continued. \u201cI believe there are clearly other areas where cooperation could produce something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kerry didn\u2019t elaborate on the other issues affecting U.S.-China relations, nor did he mention China\u2019s treatment of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in the northwestern Xinjiang region. Current estimates indicate China in recent years has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/09\/report-newlines-institute-beijing-intent-to-destroy-uighurs-xinjiang-genocide\/\">detained<\/a> up to 2 million people in internment camps.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple reports indicate China is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/29\/china-muslims-uighurs-abortion-sterilization-women-minorities\/\">committing<\/a> \u201cdemographic genocide\u201d against the local population through forced abortions and sterilization. Other reports cite the use of forced labor, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/30\/uighur-slave-labor-companies-brands-china\/\">including<\/a> for U.S. companies, and a high-tech surveillance apparatus <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/22\/china-xinjiang-uyghurs-internment-camps-ap\/\">designed to monitor<\/a> the entire region.<\/p>\n<p>The outgoing Trump administration had <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/19\/mike-pompeo-united-states-declares-china-committing-genocide-uighur-muslims\/\">declared<\/a> in January that China\u2019s actions in Xinjiang constituted genocide, and the Biden administration has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/30\/state-department-human-rights-report-china-genocide-uyghurs\/\">continued to use<\/a> that designation.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry\u2019s brushing aside of human rights in China echoes <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/27\/john-kerry-human-rights-uyghurs-china-climate\/\">previous comments<\/a> he made during an April interview, in which he suggested the U.S. should push aside \u201cdifferences on human rights\u201d in order to pursue cooperation with China on climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry brushed off a question about human rights and China\u2019s treatment of Uyghurs during an interview Wednesday with Bloomberg\u2019s David Westin on the Biden &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803041","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\/803041","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=803041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803041\/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=803041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}