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LIVE: State Department Spokesperson Ned Price Holds News Conference in Washington, D.C.
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29:19Now Playing(Mar. 31) Watch live as State Department Spokesperson Ned Price briefs reporters and responds to questions on a range of issues at a news conference in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, March 31, 2021.
An annual human rights report released by the State Department accused the Chinese government of “crimes against humanity” and reaffirmed a decision to label China’s treatment of minority Uyghurs in its western region of Xinjiang as “genocide.”
The publication Tuesday of the “2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” signaled continued tensions with China under President Joe Biden, who has maintained many of the Trump administration’s hard-line policies against Beijing.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a news conference on the report that the U.S. was looking into “consequences” for human rights violators, citing economic sanctions and visa restrictions against Chinese officials as an example. Such actions are most effective, he said, when conducted together with allies.
Blinken also signaled a departure from former President Donald Trump’s administration on issues such as LGBTQ and reproductive rights, saying the current administration “decisively” repudiates a narrower focus on certain rights under Trump’s Secretary of State Michael Pompeo. Pompeo elevated rights such as religious freedom championed by Trump’s conservative supporters while denigrating others, such as LGBTQ and abortion rights, as “pet causes.”
By contrast, Blinken called all human rights “co-equal,” with no hierarchy. That was demonstrated in the report, which criticized Zimbabwe’s government for leaving LGBTQ persons “vulnerable to violence, discrimination, and harassment.” Blinken also promised an addendum later this year on reproductive rights, a topic that was removed from the annual report under Trump.
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