Hours before expiration, the government Donald Trump, From Us, Classified China On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for the repression of Uygur Muslims in the Xinjiang region as the author of the massacre against humanity.
The Secretary of State has determined that the Chinese have misbehaved since March 2017.
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Pompeo said in a statement, “Upon careful examination of the available facts, I determined that the People’s Republic of China, under the instruction and control of the Chinese Communist Party, carried out the massacre against the predominantly Muslim Uygars and other minority ethnic and religious groups. ” .
He said, “I believe this massacre is going on and we are making a systematic effort to destroy the Uygars by the Chinese contingent-state.”
This measure is expected to damage relations between the world’s two largest economies.
After Congress passed a resolution on December 27, the US government needed to determine whether the Uygars were subject to certain conditions, such as 90 days of hard labor or other perceived penalties, such as crimes against humanity or genocide.
China has built campuses in Xinjiang to the west of the region, which it describes as a “vocational training center” to eradicate extremism and give people new skills. For other countries, like the United States, they are concentration camps. Beijing denied the allegations of abuse.
Map shows the location of Xinjiang, China – Photo: G1
Before the November 3 election in the US, the Biden campaign was announced, that the massacre was taking place in the Xinjiang region.
The US ruling does not impose any penalty, but it does mean that countries will have to consider whether they will allow the world’s major cotton producers to do business with suppliers in the Xinjiang region. Last week, the United States banned all cotton and tomato products in Xinjiang.