Washington DC, June 12 -- The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) has strongly condemned the newly proposed U.S.-China rare earth trade framework unveiled on Wednesday by U.S. President Donald J. Trump, warning that the agreement would facilitate the continued import of strategic minerals sourced from East Turkistan--an occupied nation undergoing genocide and widespread forced labor.

"This is not diplomacy; it is complicity," said Mamtimin Ala, President of the ETGE. "These minerals are soaked in the blood of enslaved Uyghurs. There is no neutral ground when dealing with China: either you stand against the Uyghur genocide, or you enable it."

The ETGE noted that the proposed framework blatantly contradicts the U.S. government's gen...