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EU, UK impose sanctions on China over Xinjiang

Nikola Kiš by Nikola Kiš
23 March 2021
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EU, UK impose sanctions on China over Xinjiang

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Brussels (Brussels Morning) The EU and the UK have imposed sanctions against China over human rights violations in Xinjiang Province, Reuters reported on Monday.

The bloc has targeted four Chinese officials. China has responded by imposing retaliatory sanctions.

This is the first time that the EU has imposed significant sanctions against China. In 1989, before the EU was formed, European countries did sanction Beijing following the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

China accused of running forced labour camps, sterilisations

The EU has accused Chen Mingguo, Director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau, of “arbitrary detentions and degrading treatment inflicted upon Uighurs and people from other Muslim ethnic minorities, as well as systematic violations of their freedom of religion or belief”.

Other senior Chinese officials cited include Wang Junzheng and Wang Mingshan. The bloc also imposed sanctions against the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Public Security Bureau.

Unlike the US, the EU did not impose sanctions against e top Xinjiang official, Chen Quanguo. 

The UN has stated more than one million Uighurs are detained in camps in Xinjiang, while some Western countries and activists have accused Beijing of torture as well as forced labour and sterilisation.

Beijing denies the accusations, asserting that it is not violating human rights in Xinjiang, claiming instead that the detention camps are actually vocational training camps and that they are necessary in the fight against extremism.

China finds Western sanctions unfair

China’s retaliatory sanctions target EU lawmakers, the bloc’s Political and Security Committee, and two institutes.

After China announced the sanctions, the Netherlands summoned the Chinese Ambassador Xu Hong.

The UK mirrored the EU’s sanctions against Chinese officials and bodies on Monday, denouncing torture, forced labour and sterilisations against Uighurs which it claimed are being carried out on an “industrial scale.”

Dominic Raab, UK Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, stressed “the evidence of widespread human rights abuses in Xinjiang cannot be ignored”.China’s charge d’affaires in London Yang Xiaoguang, commenting on the sanctions, noted: “I feel disappointed, and I’m strongly opposed to this move, because this is a totally wrong decision”.

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Nikola Kiš

Nikola Kiš

Nikola is Brussels Morning political affairs reporter, covering Germany, France, and Italy. Based in Zagreb, he is a translator with 18 years of experience reporting on political and business affairs.

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