{"id":37276,"date":"2021-03-12T10:26:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T04:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=37276"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:26:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T04:56:28","slug":"us-will-directly-raise-with-china-issue-of-genocide-against-uighur-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=37276","title":{"rendered":"\u2018US will directly raise with China issue of genocide against Uighur Muslims\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington:<\/strong> The United States will directly raise with China the issue of genocide against Uighur Muslims, the Biden Administration said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

It added that a range of global issues is expected to part of the conversation of the Quad\u2019s leadership summit.<\/p>\n

\u201cAddressing the genocide against Uighur Muslims is something that will be a topic of discussion with the Chinese directly next week but certainly this conversation (Quad summit) tomorrow\u2026 I have invited National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to come and give you a readout of that meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know there\u2019s a lot of interest in the Quad summit tomorrow, but we expect the conversation to be about a range of global issues,\u201d White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at her daily news conference.<\/p>\n

The Quad summit, she reiterated, is not focused on China. \u201cOf course, China is a topic on the minds of many leaders and countries, but we expect they will talk about the climate crisis, about economic cooperation, about addressing COVID, a range of issues and discussions and you know certainly the position of the United States is that what is happening is genocide and we will look for opportunities to work with other partners on putting additional pressure on the Chinese, but we also raise it directly, and it will be a topic of discussion next week,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Days after the Quad summit, US Secretary of State and the National Security Advisor are scheduled to meet their Chinese counterparts in Anchorage, Alaska on March 18.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis meeting next week, we felt it was important to have it on US soil, we certainly anticipate that National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Tony Blinken will be discussing both the challenges we\u2019ve had, and not holding back on issues and concerns we have with the behaviour of Chinese leadership, whether it\u2019s on Taiwan or recent, you know, efforts to push back democracy in Hong Kong or on concerns we have about the economic relationship,\u201d Psaki said in response to another question.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo they will certainly raise those issues and the lack of transparency as it relates to COVID, human rights abuses as well. But they\u2019ll also talk about areas of opportunity and ways we can work together. They will not be holding back in the conversation. But they wanted to, you know, it\u2019s an important moment next week to engage directly and in person. I know they\u2019re looking forward to it. We\u2019ll have a robust readout, I\u2019m sure, when that meeting concludes,\u201d Psaki said.<\/p>\n

At a separate news conference, State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters that the US will engage China from a position of strength. \u201cThere will be some difficult conversations, I would expect. We will certainly not pull any punches in discussing our areas of disagreement,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cBut as Secretary (of State Tony) Blinken has said, our relationship with Beijing is a multifaceted one. It is fundamentally competitive. It is adversarial, in some ways. And there also are potential areas for collaboration. And so I suspect all of those elements will come up during these discussions on March 18,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The United States, he said, expects Beijing to demonstrate seriousness regarding its own often stated desire to change the tone of the bilateral relationship.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be a difficult conversation. We\u2019ll be frank and explain how Beijing\u2019s actions and behaviour challenge the security, the prosperity, the values of not only the United States, but also our partners and allies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, on the flip side of that coin, we also will explore avenues that, for cooperation, that are in our interest. When Secretary Blinken first spoke with Director Young, when Secretary\u2013when President Biden first spoke with President Xi, they made very clear that there will be areas for collaboration, or at least there will be the potential for areas of collaboration. But there has to be one common denominator, when it is in our national interests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

“Of course, climate change, I think, is one of those that we can tangibly point to is undeniably in our own national interests for the world\u2019s largest and the world\u2019s second largest emitters to be able to work productively and constructively together when it comes to climate change. But the point remains that we\u2019re not looking to engage in talks for the sake of talks, Price said.<\/p>\n

The US is looking for Beijing to demonstrate that seriousness of purpose, to demonstrate that it seeks to live up to its own oft stated desire to change the tone of the bilateral relationship.
\nThe relationship between US and China, he said is multifaceted. \u201cIt is primarily and fundamentally a relationship that is predicated on competition. Our goal, when it comes to our relationship with Beijing, our approach to Beijing is to compete and ultimately to out compete with Beijing, in the areas that are competitive. We have talked about them, the economic realms, the security realms are primarily competitive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are, of course, areas in this relationship that are adversarial. And there are areas for potential collaboration. So I wouldn\u2019t want to attach one label to it, because it truly is multifaceted. We are going to discuss those more difficult areas with the Chinese,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said there was every expectation that when it comes to more difficult issues \u2014 Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet, pressure on Taiwan, broader human rights abuses, the South China Sea, the Mekong, economic pressure arbitrary detentions, the origins of COVID-19 \u2014 they would come up. (PTI)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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