{ "error": "", "type": "text", "title": "Amy Klobuchar's Interview with The New York Times Editorial Board - China", "slug": "amy-klobuchars-interview-with-the-new-york-times-editorial-board-china", "text": "
*This interview originally took place on December 10, 2019*<\/strong> \"Serge Schmemann<\/strong>: Senator, can I ask you about China? [...]<\/strong> SS: About China. The Chinese have been repressing fairly ruthlessly.<\/strong><\/p>\n With the Uighurs.<\/p>\n SS<\/strong>: The Uighurs and other Muslim minorities. Can or should the United States take action on their behalf?<\/strong><\/p>\n I think the United States should be standing up much taller on this front, both with Hong Kong, and you see Congress acted on that front with authorizing some sanctions and passing a law which the Trump administration grudgingly signed. But I think when it comes to the Uighurs, the stories that your newspaper uncovered of kids that are off in college and then they come home and there is no family, there\u2019s no parents, and they\u2019re off in what appears to be some kind of modern day camps where they have been sent. And it\u2019s outrageous. And it, unlike some of these things, it seems like something you could really work with your allies \u2014 again, not alone \u2014 to push a resolution and get those people home. It\u2019s a human rights debacle and a crisis and we should be elevating it on the international stage.<\/p>\n JD<\/strong>: Can I follow up on that? How big a crisis do you think Hong Kong is and if early in your presidency, China were to flood Hong Kong streets \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n China would have?<\/p>\n JD<\/strong>: To flood Hong Kong streets with troops and crack down violently, what do you think you would do?<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, first of all, again, standing taller and working with our allies I think would be key.<\/em> If you remember how this all started, it was when Carrie Lam wanted to get a new law that would have allowed the extradition of political prisoners, well all prisoners but including political prisoners. And that\u2019s what sparked this. She has since backed down from that, but it just shows that this spark, this protest \u2014 and you\u2019ve got to allow for these protests and you\u2019ve got to push on civil liberties for people. But again, I think the best way is to stand with allies, something this president has refused to do, so many times. Any time there\u2019s a choice in a moment where he can choose, he stands with dictators over allies, or tyrants over innocents. He gets us out of these international agreements, and I\u2019m going to give a speech on this at the Foreign Relations Council tomorrow [this interview was originally conducted in December 2019] about some of my ideas about reasserting American leadership, rejoining these international agreements. [...]\"<\/p>",
"quote": null,
"citation": "
<\/strong><\/p>
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n