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US sanctions Chinese companies over Muslim abuse complaints

The ruling Communist Party is accused of mass detentions, forced labour and other abuses against Muslim minorities.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
July 21, 2020
in World News

The US government has imposed trade sanctions on 11 companies it says are implicated in human rights abuses in China’s Muslim north-western region of Xinjiang.

Monday’s announcement adds to US pressure on Beijing over Xinjiang, where the ruling Communist Party is accused of mass detentions, forced labour and other abuses against Muslim minorities.

The Trump administration also has imposed sanctions on four Chinese officials over the accusations. Beijing responded by announcing unspecified penalties on four US senators who are critics of its human rights record.

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An O-Film factory in Nanchang in eastern China’s Jiangxi province – one of 11 firms that the US government has imposed trade sanctions on (AP)

The announcement also came after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in London for talks with Boris Johnson on Tuesday, in which China is set to be high on the agenda, as its relations with both Britain and the US continue to nosedive.

Human rights

Xinjiang is among a series of conflicts including human rights, trade and technology that have caused US-Chinese relations to plunge to their lowest level in decades.

The Department of Commerce said the addition of the 11 companies to its Entity List would limit their access to US goods and technology. It gave no details of what goods might be affected.

“This action will ensure that our goods and technologies are not used in the Chinese Communist Party’s despicable offensive against defenceless Muslim minority populations,” said Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in a statement.

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China has detained an estimated one million or more members of its Muslim ethnic minority groups in internment camps.

The government describes them as vocational training facilities aimed at countering Muslim radicalism and separatist tendencies.

Xinjiang Sanctions
Haolin Hair Accessories, which the US government says is implicated in human rights abuses in China’s Muslim north-western region of Xinjiang (AP)

It says those facilities have since been closed, a claim impossible to confirm given restrictions on visits and reporting about the region.

Veterans of the camps and family members say those held are forced, often with the threat of violence, to denounce their religion, culture and language and swear loyalty to Communist Party leader and head of state Xi Jinping.

The companies cited Monday include clothing manufacturers and technology suppliers.

Three of the companies were identified by investigations by The Associated Press (AP) in 2018 and 2020 as being implicated in forced labour.

Abuses

One company, Nanchang O-Film Tech, supplies screens and lenses to Apple, Samsung and other technology companies. AP reporters found employees from Xinjiang at its factory in the southern city of Nanchang were not allowed out unaccompanied and were required to attend political classes.

US customs authorities seized a shipment from the second company, Hetian Haolin Hair Accessories, on suspicion it was made by forced labour.

People who worked for the third, Hetian Taida, which produces sportswear sold to US universities and sports teams, told AP detainees were compelled to work there.

The Commerce Department imposed similar restrictions last October and in June on a total of 37 companies it said were “engaged in or enabling” abuses in Xinjiang.

Related – Shocking drone footage shows Uighurs being blindfolded and herded on to trains

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