President Biden on Saturday plans to urge allies to publicly call out China over its Uighur reeducation camps on the second full day of the G-7 summit.
He also spoke about the"deterioration of democratic norms" in Hong Kong and the importance of finding out the origins of the"Build Back Better for the World" calls for allies spending hundreds of millions of dollars in collaboration with the private sector.
Biden administration officials reportedly see the G-7 as an opportunity to take concrete action to speak out against China’s reliance on forced labor as an"affront to human dignity."Beijing has been accused of imposing forced labor on an estimated 1 million Uyghurs and other minorities, as well as torture, forced birth control and family separations. The Communist Party has denied the allegations.
After the G-7 ends Sunday, Biden will leave for Belgium and then Switzerland where he’ll meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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