US announces sanctions against China to suppress minorities

(ANSA) – US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, announced Monday evening (21) another round of sanctions against China for its “repression of ethnic and religious minorities.”

Perpetrators of human rights violations must continue to face consequences.

The United States has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on PRC officials to attempt to intimidate, harass, and suppress dissidents and human rights defenders inside and outside China,” he wrote in a tweet on Twitter.

Later, in an official statement from the State Department, there were no details about who would be punished.

The statement stressed that Beijing needs to “end genocide and crimes against humanity” in Xinjiang.

Since the end of the Donald Trump administration in 2019, the United States has begun to describe the persecution and killing of members of the Muslim Uyghur minority as a “genocide” and a systematic violation of human rights.

China has always denied the accusations also made by other Western governments, and said that the educational centers set up in the region are aimed at including Muslims in the cities in which they live.

But for many leaders, this is a “cultural genocide” to eradicate the minority in the country. (Ansa).