Uyghurs slam Biden for selling out the oppressed Uyghurs by lifting curbs on a blacklisted forensics lab

Members of oppressed Uyghur have slammed President Joe Biden for reportedly agreeing to lift sanctions against China in exchange for 'empty promises' about staunching fentanyl flows into the US.

Louisa Greve, advocacy director for the Uyghur Human Rights Project, said Biden's deal with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping would further hurt her repressed ethnic group without getting America any help in return.

Greve spoke with DailyMail.com as Biden met Xi on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in San Francisco, where they discussed their deal over sanctions and Chinese-made precursor chemicals.

'It'd be a screaming shame for the American government to give concessions to China, selling out its own ideals and actions in its fight against Uyghur genocide and getting nothing out of it,' said Greve.

The US wants China's help to stop an illicit flow of 'precursor' chemicals that are used to make fentanyl, which are often mailed to Mexican drug cartels and smuggled and sold across America — often with deadly results.

The agreement reportedly involves lifting US sanctions against the Institute of Forensic Science, part of China's Ministry of Public Security, which has been blacklisted for alleged abuses against Uyghurs and others since 2020.

Greve says the deal would undermine the cause of the Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking group in Xinjiang, which has been subject to forced labor, sterilizations and other abuses in a crackdown from Beijing.

Washington put the institute on the Commerce Department's 'entity list' in 2020 over abuses toward Uyghurs and other minority groups, effectively barring it from receiving US exports.

China has long questioned why the US would expect cooperation on fentanyl while targeting the institute.

'It would send the wrong message to lift sanctions on the forensic institute, which has been implicated in the involuntary collection of DNA of Tibetans and Uyghurs,' said Greve, an author of several books who has testified before Congress.

Worse still, added Greve, Biden is likely being sold 'empty promises.'