Surprised trump doesn’t use this to place sanctions on China and up his base’s support.
> The Senate just passed a bill that further sanctions China by authorizing the Treasury Department to identify Chinese banks and financial firms which enable the Communist Party regime, and punish them by restricting their access to the US dollar and visas for their executives.
> Unlike past Chinese sanction bills, the restrictions will apply not just to individuals, but the banks that employ them. And it will apply not just to Chinese-owned banks, but subsidiaries of American companies operating in the country.
> “According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do,” Mr. Bolton wrote.
On the other hand, he also signed the Uyghur Human Rights Act.
Edit: For the downvoters, I am not 'whatabout-ing' or trying to diminish these terrible crimes committed by China's government. But I think it's naive to expect any credible US-led action against it while the leader of the US is committing similar crimes on a lesser (but still massive) scale.
Slightly different scenario, no?
And since you can't: please stop making transparently false accusations on HN.
But he's not a very subtle chap. I doubt he could restrain himself to stick to a line.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-china/trump-praises...
Or by getting the US out of the TPP, which was meant to reduce China's influence on that part of the world?
Or by asking him to help him get re-elected?
The problem is that they seem really only willing stand up (incompetently) over trade issues. Trump, himself at least, has never seemed to care at all about human rights issues (foreign or domestic).