ETGE urges Trump to raise human rights abuses in East Turkistan, Tibet during Xi summit

WASHINGTON: The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) and the East Turkistan National Movement (ETNM) have called on the United States President Donald Trump to directly raise China’s “ongoing genocide” and “colonial occupation” of East Turkistan and Tibet during his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

President Trump began his state visit to China on Wednesday for a high-stakes two-day summit, marking the first visit by a sitting US President to the country in nearly a decade.

In its appeal to Trump, the ETGE alleged that Jinping ordered the genocide targeting Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples in occupied “East Turkistan”, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, which the exile authorities said has now entered its thirteenth year.

The exiled authorities further urged the US President to reject any agreement enabling the “genocide and enslavement” of East Turkistanis and Tibetans during the summit.

"East Turkistan holds China’s largest reserves of beryllium and major deposits of lithium, zirconium, rubidium, titanium, magnesium, and rare earth elements, the very critical minerals under negotiation at this summit, all extracted from occupied territory under conditions the United Nations has assessed may constitute enslavement as a form of crimes against humanity,” they stated.

According to the ETGE, Jinping’s genocidal campaign has led to “mass internment; mass enslavement through forced labour exceeding the Communist regime’s projection of 13.75 million transfers; forced sterilisation; the separation of over one million Uyghur and other Turkic children from their families; and organ harvesting from hundreds of thousands of East Turkistanis”. It claimed that Beijing's 2026 “Ethnic Unity Law” codified the erasure of non-Chinese identities.