You Can’t Shake Hands with Genocide: Justice For All Condemns Trump–Xi Meeting

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 3, 2025

Justice For All’s Save Uyghur Campaign strongly condemns U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s recent meeting with Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping, warning that it undermines America’s official genocide recognition and risks violating the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA).

The meeting, reportedly centered on renewed U.S.–China cooperation over rare earth and critical minerals, represents a profound moral and policy failure. It signals a dangerous retreat from accountability toward normalization with a regime accused by the U.S. State Department of committing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in occupied East Turkistan.

“America cannot champion human rights and shake hands with those accused of genocide in the same breath,” said Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, President of Justice For All. “If we compromise our values for minerals, we lose both our moral standing and our credibility as a nation.”

Under the UFLPA, any goods mined, produced, or manufactured in whole or in part in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or by entities linked to forced labor, are presumed to be tainted and banned from U.S. import under Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930.

“Entering a minerals deal with the Chinese government effectively means doing business with forced labor,” Imam Mujahid added. “The UFLPA was enacted precisely to prevent this kind of complicity. Allowing such trade would betray both American law and the Uyghur people.”

Justice For All’s Save Uyghur Campaign calls on U.S. leaders from both parties to:

• Reaffirm America’s recognition of the Uyghur genocide;
• Reject any trade or mineral agreements that contravene the UFLPA;
• Ensure full transparency and traceability across U.S.–China supply chains; and
• Place human rights at the center of all future diplomatic engagements with Beijing.

“Every rare earth deal signed without accountability is a moral stain — and a signal that genocide can be bargained with,” said Arslan Hidayat, Team Lead of the Save Uyghur Campaign.

Justice For All’s Save Uyghur Campaign advocates for the rights and freedom of Uyghur and Turkic peoples facing genocide in East Turkistan. The campaign promotes awareness, enforces accountability under U.S. and international law, and works to ensure that human rights are never sacrificed for political expediency.

Media Contact:

Hena Zuberi, Director of Advocacy

hena@justiceforall.org | 202-908-JUST

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