US warns businesses with links with China’s Xinjiang province
By Shubhangi on Jul 14, 2021 | 04:34 AM IST
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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Credits: CNBC