Future generations will be ashamed to read how companies that consider themselves progressive such as the @NBA and @Disney joined with conservatives including @realDonaldTrump to sanction concentration camps and human rights abuses by the Chinese government against Muslims. https://twitter.com/hillelneuer/status/1305272159904968704">https://twitter.com/hillelneu...
2/ See some folks in the mentions accurately noting that in recent months POTUS has been more willing to confront Xi on this issues, specifically when he signed legislation on this issue. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/17/politics/trump-uyghur-human-rights-bolton-china/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/1...
3/ It& #39;s worth also pointing out it wasn& #39;t clear if the president was going to sign the legislation -- and he ended up doing so on the day Bolton publicly accused him of personally telling Xi building the camps was the right thing to do. https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-bolton-the-scandal-of-trumps-china-policy-11592419564?emailToken=c2fd7a669010f7db7c42220e064c06dcfq2PjD25shXc4EsH/XYtkbU7am26GlBVm3bPMe6Tisw/kKgc6bh0E2TqDU4tcuz0o2fW75t7iTHAI5mBeV/HP3Tcs4yARvxq9ZwOM2GhPi8%3D&reflink=article_email_share">https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
4/ One another note — It’s a fair criticism that i perhaps shouldn’t have used the word “sanction” which is a “Janus word” — it also means its own antonym. Annoying word! I used it to mean “allow.”