They’ve been added to the Commerce Department’s Entity List, effectively prohibiting Americans from supplying goods or equipment to those companies. Advertisement The companies were “involved in human rights violations and abuses in China’s campaign of repression, mass detention, and high-tech surveillance against Uygurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups” in Xinjiang, according to the department. The Biden administration has taken a number of steps to punish Chinese firms that Washington believes are implicated in the country’s human rights abuses against Uygurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, including widespread monitoring, mass detentions in camps, and forced labor. Beijing’s policies in Xinjiang have been dubbed “genocide” by the Trump administration. Beijing refutes all allegations of human rights violations in Xinjiang. Biden recently expanded a Trump-era executive order prohibiting Americans from engaging in dozens of Chinese enterprises related to the country’s security apparatus. His order was broadened to cover surveillance firms, claiming that China’s use of the technology “facilitates repression or significant human rights abuses.” Continue reading US mutual funds spend millions in Xinjiang enterprises, which is a windfall for the region. Continue reading China accuses the EU of making ‘unacceptable’ Xinjiang demands. Continue reading A British investigation criticizes China’s treatment of Uygurs.
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A British investigation criticizes China’s treatment of Uygurs.
A few of companies that generate polysilicon, a vital element in solar panels, were also put to the Entity List by the administration last month. Xinjiang’s polysilicon has been connected to forced labor in the province in numerous reports, which Beijing disputes. Cotton, tomatoes, and various solar products from Xinjiang are also prohibited in the United States, and the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Canada have all imposed penalties on Chinese officials for their treatment of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. Advertisement The five military-linked companies added to the Entity List on Friday, including Hangzhou Hualan Microelectronics Co and Kyland Technology Co, were assisting China’s “military modernization programs connected to lasers and C4ISR programs,” according to the Commerce Department. Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) are acronyms for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Advertisement The administration has been vocal against human rights violations in Xinjiang and throughout China. Friday also commemorated the sixth anniversary of the “709 crackdown,” which targeted Chinese lawyers and human rights defenders. Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a statement in Washington on Thursday night condemning the Chinese government’s actions and urging Beijing to free those still detained. Video Suggestions/n
