(Pooja Pal; Journalist): China has been badly stung by the US ban on three Chinese politicians. Enraged, China has threatened the US to retaliate. On this action of the US, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian has described the US action as harmful to mutual relations. Apart from this, he described the move as interfering in their internal affairs. The leaders the US has banned for violating the human rights of Uygur Muslims, Kazakhs, and other ethnic minorities in Muslim-dominated Xinjiang province include Chen Kuang, Zhu Heilun, and Wang Mingshan, who are associated with China’s ruling Communist Party. Let me tell you that Chen is also a member of the influential Politburo of China. The US-banned chain is the highest-ranking Chinese official of all time.
After the ban, these officers and their family members will no longer be able to enter the US. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States is taking strict action against human rights violations in China’s Xinjiang province. Foreign Minister Pompeo said that along with Chen, Zhu, and Wang, their families and many other Communist Party officials have also been banned from coming to America. In recent months, the Trump administration has adopted a stern attitude towards China over the Corona epidemic and the detention of Uigars and other minority communities, including Hong Kong.
Restrictions on Chinese officials have been imposed under the Global Magnitsky Act of the United States. Under this law, the US government takes action against those who violate human rights worldwide. After the ban on such people, their entry into America and their business is banned. Their property is also confiscated in the US. Besides Chen, sanctions have also been imposed on Zhu Hailun, deputy secretary of the People’s Congress of Xinjiang’s legislative body, and Wang Mingshan, director of Xinjiang’s Public Security Bureau.
The bitter rhetoric that has been going on between the US and China for the last few days. The US is constantly tightening sanctions against China. The current ban on Chinese politicians is also one of its links. For a long time, the United States has been very strict about human rights violations against Uygar Muslims.
Significantly, China’s Xinjiang province has a large population of Uygar Muslims. China has been taking action against them for a long time, calling them terrorists. China is not only taking action against the people of this community but has also destroyed their mosques in many places. The Chinese government has imposed many restrictions on the people of this community. They are also monitored. Last year, a report came that about one million Uygars have been kept in detention centers in Xinjiang province. It will also be necessary to mention here that the action taken by the US recently against China includes action on Chinese companies. The US blacklisted 33 companies and institutions in China last May. The Trump administration took this action to help Beijing spy on minority Uygar Muslims in China or to have links with destructive weapons and the Chinese military.
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