As President Trump meets Xi Jinping in Beijing, the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) and East Turkistan National Movement is issuing one demand: President Trump must call on China to immediately end its genocide and enslavement of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in East Turkistan.

May 23, 2026 marks the 12th anniversary of China’s genocide, the beginning of its 13th year,  against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples. The United States was the first government in the world to formally designate these atrocities as genocide on January 19, 2021. 

The United Nations concluded in 2022 that China’s actions may constitute crimes against humanity. In January 2026, UN experts issued a stark new warning: mass forced labor transfers, exceeding 13.75 million people by Beijing’s own figures, may now constitute enslavement as a crime against humanity.

China’s twelve-year campaign has produced mass internment, forced sterilization, the separation of more than one million children from their families, and credible reports of organ harvesting. In March 2026, China passed a law codifying the erasure of non-Chinese peoples and cultures. The genocide is not winding down, it is being institutionalized, and any agreement that ignors it enables it. 

“The United States recognized our genocide. Do not trade us away for a handshake with the man who ordered it,” said Salih Hudayar, Foreign Minister of the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile.

The ETGE and East Turkistan National Movement call on President Trump to make one demand at the Beijing summit: that China immediately end the genocide and enslavement of Uyghurs and all Turkic peoples in East Turkistan.