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Biden claims China is jailing 'a billion Uighurs'
by Joseph Simonson
| October 03, 2019 09:05 PM
Former Vice President Joe Biden mistakenly claimed Thursday that the Chinese government is currently imprisoning 1 billion Uighurs, a small ethnic minority in the northwest portion of the country.
When speaking to wealthy donors at a Greek restaurant in Palo Alto, California, the former vice president addressed the ongoing tensions between the United States and China, and began listing a number of problems in the region.
"[China] has gigantic problems we don’t have,” he said, including a scarcity of water, cadmium pollution, and “a situation where they have a billion Uighurs in jail who are being treated very badly in the west; and in the east, they have a problem because they’re not sure what’s going on in Hong Kong or Shanghai.”
There are only an estimated 11 million Uighurs residing in China, and international organizations believe up to 1 million are currently detained by the government, a detention that has been repeatedly described as a human rights violation. The total population of China is estimated at 1.386 billion.
It was not immediately clear what Biden was referring to when he mentioned Shanghai.
“They have corruption that is real,” Biden added. “If we do our jobs ... they aren’t a patch on our jeans, man, not even close.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-mistakenly-claims-china-is-jailing-a-billion-uighurs
by Joseph Simonson
| October 03, 2019 09:05 PM
Former Vice President Joe Biden mistakenly claimed Thursday that the Chinese government is currently imprisoning 1 billion Uighurs, a small ethnic minority in the northwest portion of the country.
When speaking to wealthy donors at a Greek restaurant in Palo Alto, California, the former vice president addressed the ongoing tensions between the United States and China, and began listing a number of problems in the region.
"[China] has gigantic problems we don’t have,” he said, including a scarcity of water, cadmium pollution, and “a situation where they have a billion Uighurs in jail who are being treated very badly in the west; and in the east, they have a problem because they’re not sure what’s going on in Hong Kong or Shanghai.”
There are only an estimated 11 million Uighurs residing in China, and international organizations believe up to 1 million are currently detained by the government, a detention that has been repeatedly described as a human rights violation. The total population of China is estimated at 1.386 billion.
It was not immediately clear what Biden was referring to when he mentioned Shanghai.
“They have corruption that is real,” Biden added. “If we do our jobs ... they aren’t a patch on our jeans, man, not even close.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-mistakenly-claims-china-is-jailing-a-billion-uighurs