The Spokesperson for the Department of State, Ned Price, answered questions from the Press including discussing the Chinese Genocide. Price claimed the Biden Administration condemned China for the past Genocide, which peeked one reporter’s curiosity when it came to the tense of the answer. The reporter pressed Price to find out if the Biden Administration was against the Genocide the is still going on and Price was unable to give a clear answer.
“QUESTION: I have a few questions on the ongoing genocide in China. I know that the Biden administration is reviewing their China policy. But are you guys planning to impose a cost on China more so than the Trump administration did for carrying out this genocide that you guys have declared is a genocide against the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China?
MR PRICE: Well, to put a fine point on it, the Secretary has made clear that in his judgment, genocide was committed against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The PRC also has committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang against the Uyghurs who, of course, are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups, and that includes imprisonment, torture, and forced sterilization and persecution. These atrocities, we have made the point, shock the conscience. They can’t be ignored, and they must be met with serious consequences.”
“QUESTION: Can I ask you a grammatical question just about your response to the – Kylie’s first question when you said that genocide – that the Secretary’s determined that genocide was committed? Is it the administration’s belief that this is not an ongoing thing?
MR PRICE: So Secretary Blinken, in his confirmation hearings, made that judgment.
QUESTION: No, no, no – I get. The question is the tense. Do you think – do you think it only happened in the past, or is it continuing now?
MR PRICE: So the Secretary made clear that, in his judgment, genocide was committed against Uyghurs, and we’re using that tense.
QUESTION: That’s exactly my question.
MR PRICE: We’re using that tense because the Secretary was speaking in the context of his confirmation hearings at that moment in time.
QUESTION: Well can you say now, today? That was a month ago.
MR PRICE: These – the questions of genocide, questions of crimes against humanity, these are always questions that our bureaus are looking at – it’s not only the Department of State but also our interagency partners – are looking closely at to form an assessment as to whether these are ongoing.
QUESTION: Well —
MR PRICE: At that moment in time, it was the judgement of Secretary Blinken that genocide had been committed in Xinjiang, just as it was the judgment of Secretary Pompeo, as I understand it, that genocide was committed.
QUESTION: Yes. So is it fair to say that the situation that is happening right now is under review, and so it is not —
MR PRICE: It is —
QUESTION: Like, you have not determined that it is continuing to happen?
MR PRICE: I would – I would make the point that these reviews are always ongoing. It is not that we have to formally initiate a review. Relevant entities, whether it is GCJ, whether it’s EAP, whether it’s our Legal Adviser’s Office, are always evaluating information as we get it. And so, of course, we are closely evaluating, analyzing what may be going on in the ground in Xinjiang, elsewhere in China, elsewhere around the world.”
You can read the full transcript here.
This is not a hard question to answer. The answer should be ‘yes,’ the United States is against this ongoing Genocide. The Chinese are jailing and gang-raping Uyghur women every day. This is unacceptable. Biden’s previous response about how we have different cultures and if China wants to be a world power they will stop is B.S. We should not be tolerating this type of behavior and should at the very least be sanctioning them. But who knows what Biden is going to do or if he will even remember that there is a Genocide going on in China.
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