Biden to push G7 on Uighur forced labour in China’s Xinjiang
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US president to attend meeting of the advanced economies in person in the UK in June, where he is expected to raise the Uighur issue.
The United States will urge its Group of Seven allies to increase pressure on China over the use of forced labour in its northwestern Xinjiang province, home to the Muslim Uighur minority, a top White House official has announced. US President Joe Biden will attend a meeting of the G7 advanced economies in person in the United Kingdom in June, where he is expected to focus on what he sees as a strategic rivalry between democracies and more authoritarian states, particularly China. Daleep Singh, deputy national security adviser to Biden and deputy director of the National Economic Council, said on Friday that the G7 meeting in Cornwall would focus on health security, a synchronised economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic, concrete actions on climate change, and “elevating shared democratic values within the G7”.
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