Sen. Marco Rubio, R. Fla., said Thursday the Chinese Communist Party’s “repressive” and “brutal” oppression against Muslim minorities is an “evil” that the U.S. needs to confront.

Rubio said in his Wall Street Journal op/ed that China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is imposing “political re-education” that’s targeted at the Uyghur Muslim population, Kazakhs, and other ethnic Muslim minorities.