Differences in Cultural Norms
Biden Dismisses China’s Uyghur Genocide as Difference in “Cultural Norms - Summit News
Joe Biden refused to denounce China’s Uyghur genocide during his CNN appearance recently, asserting that the Communist country’s systematic oppression of minorities was just a different cultural norm.
Despite the Trump administration and his own characterizing Beijing’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims as a genocide, Biden furiously backpedaled after he was asked about the issue.
“If you know anything about Chinese history, it has always been the time when China has been victimized by the outer world is when they haven’t been unified at home,” said Biden, going on to say that President Xi Jinping is aiming to achieve a “tightly controlled China.”
“I’m not gonna speak out against what he’s doing in Hong Kong, what he’s doing with the Uyghurs in the western mountains of China…culturally there are different norms that each country and their leaders are expected to follow,” he added.
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