China announced retaliatory sanctions against 3 senior Republican lawmakers and a US envoy in a deepening row over Beijing's treatment of Uighurs in the western Xinjiang region.
XINJIANG CAMPS. This photo taken on May 31, 2019 shows a watchtower on a high-security facility near what is believed to be a re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, on the outskirts of Hotan, in China's northwestern Xinjiang region. File photo by Greg Baker/ AFP
BEIJING, China – China announced on Monday, July 13, retaliatory sanctions against 3 senior Republican lawmakers and a US envoy in a deepening row over Beijing's treatment of Uighurs in the western Xinjiang region. Some of the most outspoken critics of China – Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz along with Congressman Chris Smith – were targeted by the action, as well as the US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, Sam Brownback.the US imposed visa bans and asset freezes on several Chinese officialsThe move was"in response to the US's wrong actions", foreign ministry spokesman Hua Chunying said at a regular briefing.
"We urge the US to immediately withdraw its wrong decision, and stop words and actions that interfere in China's internal affairs and harm China's interests," she said.Sanctions will also be applied on the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China, an agency that monitors human rights in the Asian country. –
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