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US warns businesses with links with China’s Xinjiang province

By Shubhangi on Jul 14, 2021 | 04:34 AM IST

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The Biden administration on Tuesday warned businesses having supply chain and investment ties to China’s Xinjiang province as signs of genocide and other human rights violations increases in the region.

CNBC reported that the Xinjiang Supply Chain Business Advisory, which is published jointly by the State Department, Treasury, Commerce, Homeland Security, Labor and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, states that “businesses and individuals that do not exit supply chains, ventures, and/or investments connected to Xinjiang could run a high risk of violating U.S. law.”

State Department spokesman Ned Price wrote in a statement Tuesday, “The People’s Republic of China government continues its horrific abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and elsewhere in China, targeting Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and ethnic Kyrgyz who are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups.”

“These abuses include widespread, state-sponsored forced labor and intrusive surveillance, forced population control measures and separation of children from families, mass detention, and other human rights abuses amidst ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity,” he added.

The Biden administration on Friday blacklisted 14 Chinese companies over alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

Beijing, on the other hand, had rejected allegations of committing genocide against the Uyghurs, a Muslim population indigenous to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China.

(With inputs from CNBC)

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