NBA star Enes Kanter urged President Joe Biden to “stop playing games with bullies” in anticipation of his scheduled virtual meeting with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Monday.
In a post on Twitter on Sunday, Kanter – who has dedicated this basketball season to condemning the long list of human rights atrocities Xi’s Communist Party is currently committing – urged Biden to discuss the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people, cultural erasure of Tibetans, and the violent crackdown on pro-democracy dissidents in Hong Kong.
The White House has not expressed with clarity the purpose of the discussion with Xi, arguably the world’s most prolific human rights criminal. Chinese state media has emphasized that Xi will use the time to pressure Biden to distance the United States from the democratic government of Taiwan.
