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| Mr. Perth, did you comment on the FTC's case against Marshall's metaverse remote press? | ||
| And more live coverage on C-SPAN today at 4 p.m. Eastern. | ||
| We'll bring you a conversation on campus free speech during the second Trump term. | ||
| This as the administration continues to detain international students, including Badar Khan Souri, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University, who's in the United States on an approved visa. | ||
| Again, that's hosted by Georgetown University starting at 4 p.m. Eastern. | ||
| And tonight at 9, Democratic Representative Laura Friedman of California hosts a town hall with constituents. | ||
| All of that's live on C-SPAN, C-SPAN Now, our free mobile app, or online at c-span.org. | ||
| Democracy. | ||
| It isn't just an idea. | ||
| It's a process. | ||
| A process shaped by leaders elected to the highest offices and entrusted to a select few with guarding its basic principles. | ||
| It's where debates unfold, decisions are made, and the nation's course is charted. | ||
| Democracy in real time. | ||
| This is your government at work. | ||
| This is C-SPAN, giving you your democracy unfiltered. | ||
| Nearly 3,500 students across 42 states and D.C. participated in this year's C-SPAN Student Camp Documentary Competition. | ||
| This year, we asked students to create short videos with messages to the president exploring issues important to them or their communities. | ||
| All this month, we're featuring our top 21 winning entries. | ||
| One of this year's second-place high school West winners is a homeschooled 12th grader from Austin, Texas, where C-SPAN is available through Spectrum. | ||
| Their winning documentary is titled A People Erased: The Uyghur Genocide in East Turkestan. | ||
| This is East Turkestan, or as the People's Republic of China refers to it, Xinjiang. | ||
| It borders seven countries, including Russia, making it crucial to the PRC's economic and geopolitical objectives in Eurasia. | ||
| East Turkestan, however, also happens to be the native homeland of the Uyghur Muslims. | ||
| Uyghur are a historic people who have always been living in Central Asia and in today's East Turkestan, what we call the Chinese government changed the name into Xinjiang, which means new territory. | ||
| And we are a very unique indigenous people. | ||
| We are completely different from the majority Han Chinese population. | ||
| Since East Turkestan's incorporation into the PRC, the Chinese Communist Party has targeted the Uyghurs for being a threat to conformity and geopolitical expansion. | ||
| Recently, the PRC has intensified efforts to assimilate Uyghurs through mass internment, forced sterilizations and abortions, forced labor, and other efforts to erase the Uyghur religion. | ||
| The Uyghurs, many of whom practice the Muslim faith, are being erased. | ||
| Genocide is occurring, this time at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| We are privileged to have with us many members of the Uyghur community, witnesses to the attempted elimination of a people, a culture, a civilization. | ||
| Such witnesses, like Roshana Boss, are the ones who can truly illustrate the horrors the CCP is enacting upon the Uyghur people. | ||
| My husband's entire family went missing by the summer of 2017. | ||
| 24 people. | ||
| My parents-in-laws, three of my sister-in-laws, their husband's brother-in-law and his wife, 14 of my husband's nieces and nephews. | ||
| Then I practiced my freedom of speech as an American citizen in America. | ||
| I spoke out against this mass illegal detention and China's genocidal policies against Uyghurs in one of the think tanks here in Washington at Hudson Institute. | ||
| That was September 2018, more than six years ago. | ||
| So six days after that, the Chinese government went after my sister, detained her from her home in Uruki, and put her in jail. | ||
| For more than six years now, since September 2018, my sister is in jail, paying the price for my freedom of speech in America as an American citizen. | ||
| Rushan's story reflects the individual suffering inflicted by the Uyghur genocide. | ||
| But despite this evidence of human rights abuse, Uyghur internment persists partly due to economic incentives. | ||
| The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a Chinese paramilitary and commercial entity, exploits Uyghur forced labor, which companies like Nike and Adidas benefit from. | ||
| The XPCC manages prisons and policing in Xinjiang while also trading public stock. | ||
| This entity was recently sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Act, which authorizes the U.S. to penalize foreign officials involved in human rights violations. | ||
| However, other companies that interact with the XPCC have not yet been sanctioned. | ||
| This entity, XPCC, which is under commercial sanctions from multiple governments and including the U.S., not only are they have no access to the U.S. financial system, right? | ||
| It is illegal to help them have any commercial reactions to send any money to or from, but there should be secondary sanctions that no other, any foreign company that does the same should also be banned, have Magnitsky sanctions applied. | ||
| Clearly, something is wrong in Xinjiang, and it's particularly hard to address because so many entities derive an economic benefit from the PRC's actions. | ||
| But amid this international pressure, what does China have to say on the issue? | ||
| For Xinjiang, Tibet, and Taiwan, they are inalienable part of China's territory. | ||
| China is firmly opposed to U.S. interference in China's internal affairs. | ||
| China has made steady progress in human rights, and the fact is that there are many problems within the United States regarding human rights. | ||
| To some degree, this raises an interesting question. | ||
| Why is the Uyghur genocide the most pressing human rights violation in the modern world? | ||
| Well, as anyone familiar with the issue will tell you, China's actions within the Xinjiang camps are uniquely evil. | ||
| And within that camps, what's happening was complete destroyment of the Ulawurs, like dehumanizing Udawurs, humiliating, brainwashing, raping, sterilizing women, |