lary Clinton, whose style of leadership they preferred over the brash businessman. Now, four years later, Sidick is backing Trump over his Democratic rival Joe Biden.
He says the Republican leader is the only candidate strong enough to pressure China to end its repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
Sidick hasn't been back to Xinjiang, his homeland in western China, since 2009. He says in recent years his family and friends, as well as hundreds of students he recommended for overseas study, have vanished in mass detention centers.
Sidick said that, despite his initial misgivings over the US President, and suggestions that his commitment to the Uyghur cause is largely transactional, Trump's administration had taken strong action against China over alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang, including imposing sanctions and banning goods potentially made with forced labor.
"To deal with China requires a very strong leader. Donald Trump is such a leader," he said. "Joe Biden is better diplomatically (at) making friends around the world but his softness will not work for China."
Yes, Trump is a disgraceful human being – and it's not over yet as the wretched man barricades himself in the Oval Office. But there's no point pretending that his presidency has been all bad. The world is more complicated than that.
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