PRESS RELEASE – For Immediate Release
East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE)
East-Turkistan.Net
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22 June 2025
Washington, D.C. — The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) unequivocally condemns the recent meeting between U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue and Wang Xiaohong, China’s Minister of Public Security and one of the chief officials responsible for the ongoing genocide of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in occupied East Turkistan.
In a tweet posted on June 20, 2025, Ambassador Perdue described his meeting with Wang as focused on U.S.-China law enforcement cooperation and joint efforts to combat the fentanyl crisis. This meeting, conducted in a friendly and formal diplomatic setting, is a shocking act of normalization with a top official of China’s genocidal regime.
“We condemn in absolute terms U.S. Ambassador David Perdue for amicably sitting down for a cozy meeting with one of the individuals most directly responsible for committing GENOCIDE against our people. Wang Xiaohong should be SANCTIONED, not wined and dined!,” said Salih Hudayar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Security of the East Turkistan Government in Exile.
The ETGE reminds the American people and the international community that the United States officially recognized China’s ongoing genocide in East Turkistan on January 19, 2021, under the first Trump Administration. That recognition remains in effect. As a state party to the 1948 Genocide Convention, the United States is legally obligated to prevent and punish genocide, not to cooperate with its perpetrators under the pretense of “public security.”
Any such cooperation with China’s Ministry of Public Security not only contradicts that obligation, but also legitimizes the very apparatus responsible for mass internment, forced sterilization, torture, religious and cultural erasure, forced labor, and organ harvesting. It amounts to tacit approval of genocide and crimes against humanity.
The ETGE is particularly alarmed by the possibility that this so-called “law enforcement” cooperation will embolden China and the Chinese Communist Party to intensify their transnational repression campaign against East Turkistani/ Uyghur communities in the diaspora, including U.S. citizens. China has long abused law enforcement mechanisms to surveil, harass, and silence dissidents abroad through intimidation, manipulation of foreign institutions, and strategic misuse of international legal systems. These tactics form part of a broader lawfare strategy, the weaponization of legal and judicial systems to delegitimize, criminalize, and paralyze political opposition to the Chinese regime.
A prime example of this lawfare was the 2018 to 2022 SLAPP lawsuit filed by a Chinese national against Foreign Minister Salih Hudayar. The lawsuit, ultimately dismissed in January 2022, demonstrates how China-linked actors engage in lawfare by exploiting and abusing the U.S. judicial system to suppress legitimate pro-independence advocacy.
Following 9/11, the United States entered into limited “counterterrorism cooperation” with China. The CCP quickly exploited this engagement to demonize East Turkistani / Uyghur advocates, branding all forms of dissent, including peaceful expression and especially pro-independence activism, as “terrorism.” This narrative laid the foundation for what has since evolved into a full-scale, state-directed campaign of genocide. Repeating such a mistake today would not only render the U.S. government partially complicit in genocide and crimes against humanity it has already recognized, but would also constitute a violation of both U.S. law and binding international treaty obligations.
“The United States cannot claim to oppose genocide while simultaneously shaking hands with the perpetrators,” said Dr. Mamtimin Ala, President of the East Turkistan Government in Exile. “This meeting with Wang Xiaohong is not diplomacy. It is appeasement. The people of East Turkistan are still suffering. Millions under surveillance, in prisons and concentration camps, or in exile. They deserve justice, not betrayal.”
The ETGE further states: The United States must cease its double-standards and recognize East Turkistan as an occupied nation on par with Tibet. The consistent refusal to apply the same principles to East Turkistan, despite overwhelming evidence of genocide and colonization, reflects a troubling political inconsistency that undermines America’s stated commitment to justice and universal human rights. Calling out this disparity does not weaken Tibetan recognition. It reinforces the demand for moral clarity and justice for all oppressed peoples.
The East Turkistan Government in Exile calls on the U.S. government to immediately end all security, intelligence, and law enforcement cooperation with the People’s Republic of China, to sanction Wang Xiaohong and other senior Chinese officials, and to uphold its obligations under the Genocide Convention by taking firm action to prevent and punish the ongoing atrocities. The United States must also recognize East Turkistan as an occupied country and engage with its legitimate democratic representatives, namely the East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE).