According to an excerpt from John Bolton's forthcoming book published in The Wall Street Journal, Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping over dinner last year that Xi should "go ahead with building the camps," which Trump thought was "exactly the right thing to do." Trump's alleged remarks are in stark contrast to the official position advocated by his administration, which has repeatedly challenged Beijing over it repressive policies in Xinjiang.
Last July, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went so far as to publicly label China's treatment of Uyghurs as the "stain of the century." Here's what you need to know about Xinjiang and what's been going on there.
