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castle-bravo | 7 years ago

Well, Mike Pence denounced china on October 3 while speaking at the Hudson Institute[0]. He specifically mentioned the million people in detention in Xinjiang. I've provided a link to the video in case you want to watch.

[0] https://youtu.be/aeVrMniBjSc

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3into10power5|7 years ago

The cynic in me think public denouncing of countries or its leaders means nothing. Its just meant to pacify us commoners? Am I wrong to think so?

krapp|7 years ago

> Its just meant to pacify us commoners? Am I wrong to think so?

I think so, but only because I think governments know how little "us commoners" actually care, beyond wanting to virtue signal and wanting to see politicians raise a stink about things.

bduerst|7 years ago

Is this the same Mike Pence that supports the Muslim country travel ban ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769#/media/F...

grej|7 years ago

No fan of the current administration, but there’s a massive difference between locking up and torturing millions of Muslims, and denying travel entry to citizens from certain majority-Muslim countries. Comparisons to the Japanese interment camps set up by FDR during WW2 would make more sense.

lainga|7 years ago

Was it the same FDR who turned away the MS Saint Louis in 1939?

shard972|7 years ago

Hm, weird muslim ban. It seems to miss the largest muslim populated country in the world...

kelukelugames|7 years ago

Trump demonizes both China and Islam. So I'm not sure what the best play for the Republican party is here. If you praise the Chinese government then that's going too far. But if you criticize them then you have to soften your own Islamophobia.

vkou|7 years ago

Is he ready to offer the affected Uyghurs (Or even some large percentage of them) asylum in the US? I'm sure that if he made that offer, China would gladly exile them.

Of course, he's not, though.