Justice For All’s Save Uyghur Campaign Condemns Trump–Xi Meeting for Undermining Uyghur Genocide Recognition and Violating UFLPA

November 3, 2025

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

We have formally registered our position with the U.S. State Department. This is a dangerous display of political hypocrisy and violation of policy.  The meeting, which took place amid reports of renewed U.S.–China cooperation on rare earth minerals, directly undermines America’s own recognition of the Chinese government’s ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in East Turkistan.

This bilateral contact represents a troubling shift from accountability toward normalization with a regime credibly accused of mass internment, forced labor, sexual violence, and the destruction of religious and cultural identity.It comes just four years after the Trump administration itself declared, through the U.S. Department of State, that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is perpetrating genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs.

“America cannot champion human rights and shake hands with with those accused of genocide in the same breath,” said Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, President of Justice For All. “The Trump–Xi meeting betrays the very principles on which U.S. foreign policy claims to stand. If we compromise our values for minerals, we sell out the Uyghurs and our nation’s moral standing at once.”

Reports of a potential U.S.–China rare earth or mineral cooperation deal raise serious legal and ethical red flags under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA). Under the UFLPA, any goods mined, produced, or manufactured in whole or in part in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or by an entity on the UFLPA Entity List, are presumed to involve forced labor and are barred from entry into the United States under Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930.

The UFLPA establishes a rebuttable presumption that any product originating from East Turkistan is linked to forced labor, including raw materials such as lithium, graphite, and rare earth elements. The CCP’s systematic use of forced labor across the region feeds directly into China’s control of critical minerals and manufacturing, making any U.S.–China resource agreement inseparable from the machinery of oppression.

“Entering a mineral 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 across party lines to:

• Publicly reaffirm the United States’ recognition of the Uyghur genocide;
• Reject any trade or mineral agreements that violate the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act;
• Demand transparency and traceability in all U.S.–China supply chains; and
• Place human rights above political and economic expediency in all future diplomatic engagements with Beijing

“The world must understand that economic cooperation with China cannot be separated from the blood and suffering of Uyghur forced laborers,” said Arslan Hidayat, Team Lead of the Save Uyghur Campaign. “Every rare earth deal signed without accountability is a moral stain, and a signal that genocide can be bargained with.”

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 works to promote awareness, enforce accountability under U.S. and international law, and ensure that human rights are never sacrificed for political expediency.

Contact Information: Hena Zuberi, Director Of Advocacy

Email: hena@justiceforall.org. Phone: 202-908-JUST

Website: https://www.justiceforall.org/save-uighur/