“The Trump administration has led the global effort to impose tangible prices on the continued crackdown on the CPR, arbitrary mass arrests, intrusive surveillance, forced labor, forced population control, involuntary collection of biometric knowledge, and the specific genetics of those groups.” Added.
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The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) as a paramilitary of the Communist Party of China (PCCh) and guilty of human rights violations.
The Treasury Department also placed sanctions on Sun Jinlong, a former Political Commissar of the XPCC, and Peng Jiarui, the Deputy Party Secretary and Commander of the XPCC, for their involvement in the reported abuses.
“As previously stated, the United States is committed to using the full breadth of its financial powers to hold human rights abusers accountable in Xinjiang and across the world,” Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin said Friday.
The United States has imposed several sanctions on Chinese and entities amid reports of human rights violations.
On July 9, Chen Quanguo, the first political commissioner of XPCC, was appointed across the United States.
“After arriving in the region, Chen Quanguo began implementing a comprehensive surveillance, detention and indoctrination program in Xinjiang, aimed at Uighurs and members of other ethnic minorities,” Pompeo said Friday.
Several U.S. government agencies have warned of the “reputational, economic and legal risks” of running in the Xinjiang region due to reports of forced labour.
The Ministry of Commerce imposed sanctions on Chinese entities suspected of having links to human rights violations in Xinjiang.
China has stated that Pompeo’s tough stance opposed to human rights violations is nothing more than a distraction from the COVID-19 public fitness crisis in the United States for an election year.
“Pompeo’s comments are a patchwork of China’s political lies that forget the facts and distort the truth,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Friday at a press conference.
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“However, they are doomed to failure because the world will not buy what they sell; peace lovers will not allow it; and the other Chinese will not be intimidated,” Webin added, not to mention Uighurs in particular.
The United States is not condemning the measures taken in opposition to the Uighurs.
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab accused China of previous “gross and heinous” acts this month and Parliament will debate sanctions.