The State Department on Wednesday warned that China is an “exporter” of its methods and technologies used in repressing Uighur Muslims to other countries seeking to persecute religious minorities.

At a joint press conference, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback highlighted China as a consistent threat to religious freedom not only within its own borders but in every other country where it exerts influence.

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