Economics
Democrats Aim Strong Words Against China Over Hong Kong, Uighurs
- 2020 contenders cite human-rights concerns in party’s debate
- ‘We have to make it clear: This is as far as you go’: Biden
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Democratic presidential candidates took aim at China on Thursday, with Joe Biden saying that ethnic Uighur Muslims are being kept in “concentration camps” and calling for sanctions against the world’s second-largest economy.
During the party’s debate in Los Angeles, several of the seven 2020 contenders on stage challenged Beijing over its treatment of Muslim minority populations in its western Xinjiang region and its handling of protests in Hong Kong.