It turned out that Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who is a candidate for the 2024 presidential election in the USA, was not aware of the Uyghur minority living in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
It was noteworthy that Republican Suarez, who answered questions in a radio show he attended, did not know the Uyghurs.
Suarez, “Are you going to talk about the Uighurs during your campaign?” to the question “What?” gave the answer.
“Uyghurs?” Suarez repeated, “What Uighur?” said. The host’s reaction to Suarez was, “Okay, we’ll get back to that. You have to be smart about it.” was in shape.
In the context of relations and competition with China, which is one of the important elements of the US foreign policy, the fact that a possible presidential candidate does not recognize the Uyghurs has received wide coverage in the American press.
Suarez’s “Uyghur what?” The question comes to mind, Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson, who ran for the presidential election in 2016, was asked, “What is Aleppo?” reminded her to reply.
Suarez announced two weeks ago that he was running for the 2024 presidential election from the Republican Party.
Standing out as the first Latino candidate from the Republican Party to run for president, Suarez, 45, has been the Mayor of Miami since 2017.
In recent years, China has been the target of criticism in the international public opinion due to allegations of systematic rights violations targeting the Uyghur Turks and other minority members in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, especially the USA. (AA)