Washington, May 13: The East Turkestan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) and the East Turkestan National Movement (ETNM) have urged U.S. President Donald Trump to raise the issues of alleged “genocide” and “colonial occupation” in East Turkestan and Tibet during his upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.
President Trump is set to embark on a state visit to China for a two-day high-level summit, marking the first trip to China by a sitting U.S. president in nearly a decade.
In their appeal, the ETGE accused China of orchestrating ongoing genocide against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic communities in the Chinese-occupied region of East Turkestan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The exiled organization claims that this campaign has been ongoing for nearly 13 years.
The exiled groups also urged President Trump not to agree to any compromises during the summit that would promote the “genocide and enslavement” of East Turkistani and Tibetan people.
They stated, “East Turkestan is home to China’s largest beryllium reserves and significant deposits of lithium, zirconium, rubidium, titanium, magnesium, and rare earth elements. These crucial minerals are the subject of discussions at this summit, and their extraction is occurring under conditions that the United Nations has deemed slavery, constituting crimes against humanity.”
According to the ETGE, activities under Xi Jinping’s alleged campaign include “widespread detention, large-scale slavery through forced labor, forced sterilizations, the separation of over a million Uyghur and other Turkic children from their families, and the forced extraction of organs from hundreds of thousands of individuals.” The organization also claims that China’s 2026 “Ethnic Unity Law” has legalized the process of erasing non-Chinese identities.
ETGE President Mamatimin Ala stated, “The solution to guarantee our human rights and existence is to end colonialism and restore national independence for East Turkestan. On May 5, we filed the first formal petition for East Turkestan with the United Nations Decolonization Committee and appeal to the international community, including the United States, to support our struggle for freedom.”
The exiled organizations have labeled China’s occupation of East Turkestan as a direct threat to U.S. national security. They allege that China has conducted all its nuclear tests in the East Turkistani region, including a test in 2020, and is now constructing hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silos aimed at the U.S.
They also claim that China has established significant AI and data center infrastructure in the region.
ETGE’s Foreign Minister and ETNM President Salih Hudayar remarked, “The critical minerals being discussed at the summit are all extracted from occupied East Turkestan through genocide and slavery. An independent and free East Turkestan could provide these minerals to the U.S. at competitive rates, strengthening the American industry and weakening Beijing’s grip.”
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