{"id":253772,"date":"2021-09-22T18:37:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T23:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=253772"},"modified":"2021-09-22T00:16:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T05:16:44","slug":"pelosi-china-committing-genocide-work-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pelosi-china-committing-genocide-work-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi: China is committing genocide, but we’ll work with them anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For years, China has been committing a genocide against the Uighur people. This summer, a tribunal<\/a> detailed just how bad the genocide has become \u2014\u00a0from infantide, forced abortions, torture, and sexual violence to concentration camps, forced labor, and more. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently acknowledged the genocide taking place, but outrageously<\/a> implied that the U.S. should look the other way when it comes to China’s human rights abuses because they are needed in the fight against climate change.<\/p>\n

Pelosi made the remarks at an event in the United Kingdom, where she had been invited to speak to the Cambridge Union Society at Cambridge University.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith their military aggression in the South China Sea, with their continuation of genocide with the Uyghurs in Xinjiang province, with their violation of the cultural, religious priority of Tibet, with their suppression of democracy in Hong Kong and other parts of China as well, they\u2019re just getting worse in terms of suppression and freedom of speech. So human rights, security, economically. Having said all of that,” she said, “… we have to work together on climate. Climate is an overriding issue and China is the leading emitter in the world, U.S. too, developed world too, but we must work together. So we have to have a level of communication on whether it\u2019s COVID, whether it\u2019s terrorism, whether it\u2019s climate. We still have to have some communication and dialogue with China on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0China\u2019s new three-child policy is not a generous change of heart. Here\u2019s why.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pelosi: Yes, China's committed \u201cgenocide\u201d against the Uighurs; \u201chaving said that," the bigger, \u201coverrriding" issue is \u201cworking together on climate\u201d pic.twitter.com\/xfk2jPgXTH<\/a><\/p>\n

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n