US has imposed sanctions against Chinese companies and individuals, allegedly involving the persecution of Uyghur people and other ethnic and religious minorities in China, Xinjiang province. The Joe Biden-led government also sanctioned two Chinese officials over the alleged links to human rights abuses. According to the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the sanctions applied to Gao shi, a former police chief at the Kazakhstan Autonomous Perfection in northern Xinjiang, an official from the Communist Party’s United Front Work Department, US says that it has banned the officials from entering the country, and further adding that they have frozen their American assets were also barring any American citizen or anyone located in the US from dealing with their property unless they had permission from the office, which is hard to obtain.
Moreover, financial institutions and other people who provide money or goods to either Gao shi or huliana could attract secondary sanctions by the US. Now, Washington also slapped sanctions on three more Chinese companies, accusing them of recruiting and exploiting people of ethnic minorities through their labor practices. One of the three companies sanctioned by the US is involved in sugar production, while another is involved in textiles.
The third company deals in electrical supplies and battery accessories. Now, in response to these sanctions, Liu Peng Lu, a Chinese embassy spokesperson in Washington said that China condemn the US sanctions and that the spokesperson said, and I quote, Such acts interfere in China’s internal affairs. Now, this also violates the basic norms governing international relations and seriously undermine China-US relations.
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