Build on Bipartisan Agreement on Chinese Communist Party Genocide


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Frank Gaffney, Jr. One of the few – actually, very few – good news items to come out of the first days of the Biden-Harris administration is a glimmer of robust bipartisan opposition to the Chinese Communist Party. Before he left office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared the CCP’s oppression of Uyghur Muslims in western China to be “genocide.” Shortly thereafter, Joe Biden’s nominee as Pompeo’s replacement, Tony Blinkin, and his Treasury Secretary-designate, Janet Yellin, both endorsed that designation in congressional testimony. Under international law, a finding of genocide obliges us to take action against the perpetrator. An appropriate...