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On the recordSeptember 28, 2021
last week, President Biden went to the United Nations and he announced his capitulation to the Chinese Communist Party. The message was clear from what he did--and did not-- say. In Joe Biden's 30-minute-long monologue on the state of the world, he never once even said the name of the world's greatest threat to peace, stability, and democracy: China. He never said it once. He refused to even say the word ``China.'' Nor did he mention Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, or practically any of the victims of Chinese communist aggression. Now, President Biden did mention the ``targeting and oppression'' of minorities in Xinjiang Province in China's northwest, yet he left mysteriously vague who was responsible for all that targeting and oppression. He blithely lumped Xinjiang with other abuses around the world as if it was just one area of deep concern among many. But the concentration camps in Xinjiang are not just another problem. They are proof of the most systematic genocide and ethnic cleansing campaign occurring in the world today, perpetrated by one of the most advanced and powerful regimes on Earth, personally approved by the Chinese Communist leader Xi Jinping. Leaked documents make it clear that Chairman Xi is responsible for this campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing. Let me explain how brutal it is. The Chinese Communist Party are sterilizing women in Xinjiang Province so they cannot procreate and create more of their ethnic minority.…
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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