U.S. President Donald Trump showed little interest in combating the religious repression of Catholics or Falun Gong members in mainland China, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton writes in his tell-all book on his time inside the Trump administration.
Bolton’s newly released book, “The Room Where It Happened,” details his observations and criticisms of Trump over the course of his time serving as national security adviser from 2018 to 2019.
One of the biggest claims Bolton makes is that Trump showed repeated indifference to various forms of political and religious persecution occurring across mainland China. While many noted Trump’s silence about the Uighurs, the Muslim group in western China facing imprisonments, repression of practicing Islam and a cultural genocide, Bolton also mentions the Catholic Church and Falun Gong members in China as a group dismissed by the president. Falun Gong is a Buddhist-based religion with specific mediation practices, developed in China.
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