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Omer KanatThe Diplomat |
If Trump sits across from Xi and fails to raise the cases of Uyghur Americans and their families, Beijing will read that omission not as pragmatism,...
To ignore the intellectuals languishing in Chinese prisons is to normalize an ongoing cultural genocide in the Uyghur homeland.
Forty-five years ago, the U.S. silenced Uyghur voices in the name of diplomacy. Today, they are being silenced in the name of austerity.
Uyghur Language Day matters, not just as celebration, but as defiance of the attempt to extinguish our civilization.
If the U.S. intends to be great, it cannot allow China a free pass to bully its allies.