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Continued from Front in northwest China and a
They follow an allegation in member of the Politburo;
a new book by former na- Zhu Hailun, party secretary
tional security adviser John of the Xinjiang political
Bolton that Trump told Chi- and legal committee; and
nese President Xi Jinping he Wang Mingshan, party sec-
was right to build detention retary of the Xinjiang public
camps to house hundreds security bureau.
of thousands of ethnic mi- They and their immedi-
norities. ate family members are
The sanctions were an- banned from entering the
nounced a week after an United States. The AP pro-
Associated Press investiga- filed Zhu as part of a pack-
tion showed forced popu- age of stories last year.
lation control of the Uighurs Pompeo also announced
and other largely Muslim that he was placing ad-
minorities, one of the rea- ditional visa restrictions on
sons cited by the State De- other Chinese Communist
partment for the sanctions Party officials believed to
"The United States will not be responsible for or com-
stand idly by as the Chi- plicit in "unjust detention
nese Communist Party car- or abuse" of Uighurs, eth-
ries out human rights abus- nic Kazakhs and members
es targeting Uighurs, ethnic of other minority groups in In this Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, a guard tower and barbed wire fence surround a deten-
Kazakhs and members of Xinjiang. Their family mem- tion facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region.
other minority groups in bers also are subject to the Associated Press
Xinjiang, to include forced travel restrictions.
labor, arbitrary mass deten- The sanctions come as abuses, Uighur exiles asked ratist tendencies because eradicated.
tion, and forced popula- pressure mounts for action the International Criminal of their distinct culture, lan- Last December, Xinjiang
tion control, and attempts on the forced detention Court to investigate Beijing guage and religion. China's authorities announced that
to erase their culture and and abuse of largely Mus- for genocide. officially atheist Communist the camps had closed and
Muslim faith," Secretary of lim minorities in China. In re- In recent years, the Chi- government at first denied all the detainees had "grad-
State Mike Pompeo said in sponse to the AP investiga- nese government has de- the existence of the intern- uated," a claim difficult to
a statement. tion, 78 senators and mem- tained an estimated 1 mil- ment camps in Xinjiang, corroborate independently
Pompeo's statement, ac- bers of Congress signed lion or more ethnic Turkic but now says they are vo- given tight surveillance and
companied by a similar a letter urging the Trump minorities. The ethnic mi- cational training facilities restrictions on reporting in
announcement from the administration to sanc- norities are held in intern- aimed at countering Mus- the region. Some Uighurs
Treasury Department, said tion Chinese officials and ment camps and prisons lim radicalism and separat- and Kazakhs have told the
additional visa restrictions call for a U.N. probe into where they are subjected ist tendencies. AP that their relatives have
are being placed on other whether the actions in Xin- to ideological discipline, China says Xinjiang has been released, but many
Chinese Communist Party jiang constitute genocide. forced to denounce their long been its territory and others say their loved ones
officials believed to be re- Biden issued a statement religion and language and claims it is bringing prosper- remain in detention, were
sponsible for, or complicit calling the Chinese gov- physically abused. China ity and development to the sentenced to prison or
in, the unjust detention or ernment's actions "uncon- has also placed the chil- vast, resource-rich region. transferred to forced labor
abuse of Uighurs, ethnic scionable crimes" and said dren of detainees into doz- Many among Xinjiang's na- in factories.
Kazakhs and members of he would work to "support ens of orphanages, where tive ethnic groups say they In October 2019, the United
other minority groups. a pathway for those perse- they too are indoctrinated, are being denied eco- States imposed visa restric-
The three officials target- cuted to find safe haven in former detainees and their nomic options in favor of tions on Chinese officials
ed by name were: Chen the United States and other families say. migrants from elsewhere in "believed to be responsible
Quanguo, the party sec- nations." And in the first at- China has long suspected China and that their Muslim for, or complicit in" the de-
retary of the Xinjiang Ui- tempt to enlist international the Uighurs, who are mostly faith and culture and lan- tention of Muslims in Xinji-
ghur Autonomous Region law over the human rights Muslim, of harboring sepa- guage are being gradually ang. q

AP EXPLAINS: Public won't see Trump's tax documents for now

WASHINGTON (AP) — The er prosecutors in New York In the New York case, also ing records and other fi- es normally would not be
Supreme Court ruled Thurs- could get them. a 7-2 ruling, the court re- nancial documents out of made public.
day in two cases involving The records requests jected broad arguments the public eye for the time WHAT DID TRUMP HAVE
access to President Don- were nearly identical, ex- by Trump's lawyers and the being. Congress' fight goes TO SAY ABOUT THE OUT-
ald Trump's financial re- cept the request from the Justice Department that back to a lower court so COMES?
cords. The cases were the Manhattan district attor- the president is immune there is likely no chance Trump didn't seem too
last to be released of the ney specifically included from investigation while the records will be handed happy. The Republican
high court's term, which Trump's taxes. he holds office. The Man- over before the November president quickly took his
dragged into July because In the case involving Con- hattan district attorney is election. The New York frustration with the out-
of the coronavirus pan- gress, the Supreme Court's conducting a criminal in- case also goes back to a comes to Twitter. He wrote:
demic. 7-2 ruling ruling returns the vestigation that includes lower court, but the justices "The Supreme Court sends
Here's a look at the deci- case to lower courts, and hush money payments to upheld the Manhattan dis- case back to Lower Court,
sions in the Trump cases: it's unclear how quickly the women who claim they trict attorney's demand for arguments to continue.
WHAT HAPPENED? case might be resolved. had affairs with Trump. Trump's tax returns. How- This is all a political pros-
One case had to do with The outcome is at least DOES THIS MEAN THE RE- ever, the returns are being ecution ... now I have to
whether Congress could a short-term victory for CORDS WILL BE RELEASED sought as part of a grand- keep fighting in a politi-
get access to Trump's fi- Trump, who has strenuously PUBLICLY SOON? jury investigation. Because cally corrupt New York. Not
nancial records. The other sought to keep his financial No. The decisions will keep the grand jury process is fair to this Presidency or
case had to do with wheth- records private. Trump's tax returns, bank- confidential, Trump's tax- Administration!"q