I had authored a provision that required the administration, whichever administration, to respond by April to evaluate China's actions with the treatment of the Uighurs, and that has now been done with today's determination by the administration, by Secretary Pompeo, that it constitutes genocide.
Merkley discusses the Uighurs and the administration's genocide determination.
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