Trump Signs Uighur Rights Bill Amid Bolton Book Claims

Jun.17 — Donald Trump signed a measure punishing Chinese officials for imprisoning more than one million Muslims on the same day a new book by his former National Security Advisor John Bolton alleged the President encouraged Beijing to build internment camps to house them. Bolton also writes in the book that Trump asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping to help him win re-election. Emily Wilkins reports on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia.”


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The Uyghurs, alternately Uygurs, Uighurs or Uigurs, are a Turkic-speaking minority ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central and East Asia. The Uyghurs are recognized as native to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China. (Source Wikipedia).

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