Axios: Exclusive: Trump held off on Xinjiang sanctions for China trade deal
In an Oval Office interview on Friday afternoon, President Trump told me that he held off on imposing Treasury sanctions against Chinese officials involved with the Xinjiang mass detention camps because doing so would have interfered with his trade deal with Beijing.
Driving the news: Asked why he hadn't yet enacted Treasury sanctions against Chinese Communist Party officials or entities tied to the camps where the Chinese government detains Uighurs and other Muslim minorities, Trump replied, "Well, we were in the middle of a major trade deal."
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WNU Editor: President Trump is not a person driven by ideology. He wants a deal. But this is not possible in a situation like this one. China has to be held accountable for its actions. Fortunately, the pandemic has changed the the views of most Americans on China, President Trump included.
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