Can America’s government deal with China’s after accusing it of genocide?
The Biden administration has declined to rescind Trump administration’s description of China’s Uyghur policy
HAVING BRANDED China with committing the most heinous of crimes, the Biden administration is confronting diplomats and multinational firms with a vexing question: how do you compartmentalise genocide? The term was first applied by Mike Pompeo, the outgoing secretary of state, in his last full day in the job. The Biden administration has declined to rescind it. Thus the question is likely to haunt Olympic sponsors and athletes too, as next year’s winter games in Beijing draw closer.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Genocide aside”
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