WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States stated on Friday it would include 33 Chinese companies and organizations to a financial blacklist for helping Beijing spy on its minority Uighur population or due to the fact that of ties to weapons of mass destruction and China’s military.
FILE PICTURE: Flags of U.S. and China are positioned for a meeting in between Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and China’s Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu at the Ministry of Agriculture in Beijing, China June 30,2017 REUTERS/Jason Lee
The U.S. Commerce Department’s move marked the Trump administration’s newest efforts to punish companies whose items may support Chinese military activities and to penalize Beijing for its treatment of Muslim minorities. It came as Communist Celebration rulers in Beijing on Friday revealed details of a strategy to impose national security laws on Hong Kong.
7 companies and 2 institutions were listed for being “complicit in human rights violations and abuses devoted in China’s campaign of repression, mass approximate detention, required labor and high-technology surveillance against Uighurs” and others, th