Biden says China to pay price for human rights abuses

US president says his country will reassert its global role on human rights and will work to get China to protect them.

United States President Joe Biden has said that China will pay a price for its human rights abuses, responding to queries at a televised event on the Asian nation’s handling of Muslim minorities in its far western region of Xinjiang. Chinese President Xi Jinping has drawn global criticism for holding the minority Uighurs in internment camps and other human rights abuses. “Well, there will be repercussions for China and he knows that,” Biden said of Xi when pressed on the issue at the town hall event televised on national broadcaster CNN on Tuesday.