On June 2, Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) signed on as a co-sponsor of a bill to punish China for undermining Hong Kong’s independence. Two weeks later, he turned around and blocked it — at the request of the White House.
President Donald Trump has come under fire for his posture toward China, including recent scrutiny over allegations made by former national security adviser, John Bolton, who claims in his new book that the president sought political favors from Chinese President Xi Jinping. Bolton writes that Trump even encouraged Xi to continue building detention camps for religious minorities, most notably the Uighur Muslims, in the country’s Xinjiang region.
At the same time, Trump’s re-election campaign has been hammering presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, accusing him of being soft on China..continue to urge Trump to get tough on China for human-rights violations as well as for Beijing's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in the country’s Wuhan region.
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