Donald Trump tells President Xi Jinping of China that he approves of the country’s use of concentration camps on Muslim people. The camps have been used to detain over a million Muslims.
At the opening dinner of the Osaka G-20 meeting in June 2019, with only interpreters present, Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang. According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do. The National Security Council’s top Asia staffer, Matthew Pottinger, told me that Trump said something very similar during his November 2017 trip to China.
John Bolton, Trump National Security Adviser
Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20200701033244/https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-bolton-the-scandal-of-trumps-china-policy-11592419564
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/us/politics/trump-china-bolton.html
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