Unspoken in final trade talks: China’s internment of Muslims | World News, The Indian Express

Unspoken in final trade talks: China’s internment of Muslims | World News, The Indian Express

By New York Times |Published: May 5, 2019 9:57:52 am

Unspoken in final trade talks: China’s internment of Muslims

Administration officials have declined to use any of the economic leverage the White House amassed through tariffs placed on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods to compel China to change its policies toward Uighurs.

Rushan Abbas, whose sister and aunt were detained in Xinjiang, China, last September, leads a rally encouraging sanctions against Chinese officials in Washington on Friday, May 3, 2019. China has faced growing condemnation from human rights groups in recent months for its detention of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Uighurs and other minority Muslims in large internment camps. (Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times)

Written by Alan Rappeport and Edward Wong (Glenn Thrush contributed reporting.)