WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on an effective Chinese company in the Xinjiang province and two authorities for what it said were
human rights abuses
against Uighurs and other ethnic minorities.
The move, the most recent blow to US-China relations, came a week after US President Donald Trump closed the Chinese consulate in Houston, triggering Beijing to shutter the United States consulate in Chengdu.
The United States Treasury Department said in a declaration it blacklisted the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, likewise known as
XPCC
, together with Sun Jinlong, previous party secretary of the XPCC, and Peng Jiarui, deputy celebration secretary and commander of