Secretary of State Blinken on political repression in Hong Kong and human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
This week on 60 Minutes, Blinken said China is the biggest foreign policy challenge facing the Biden administration as it threatens the rules-based international order. That order, which traditionally governed relations between nations, emerged after World War II. « When we see any country that is challenging that order, or trying to undermine it, we’re going to do something about it. We’re going to stand up in defense of it, » Blinken commented. This March in Anchorage, Alaska, the first formal in-person government talks between the U.S. and China under the Biden administration took place. There, about repressing democracy in Hong Kong and abusing human rights in its province Xinjiang. Jiechi in return accused the U.S. of interfering in China’s internal affairs and questioned the state of domestic affairs in America. Blinken told 60 Minutes, « Actually, no, they’re not [internal affairs].
