Beijing has criticized the US bill, saying it “maliciously attacks” Chinese policy in the Xinjiang region.
Beijing, China:
Beijing on Thursday criticized a new US law that would punish Chinese officials for the mass incarceration of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities, saying it “maliciously attacks” Chinese policy in the Xinjiang region.
China “will fight back resolutely and the United States will bear the brunt of all subsequent consequences,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement after US President Donald Trump signed Uighur human rights law on Wednesday. man.
The legislation, which passed Congress almost unanimously, obliges the US administration to determine which Chinese officials are responsible for the “arbitrary detention, torture and harassment” of Uighurs and other minorities.
The United States would then freeze all assets held by the authorities in the world‘s largest economy and prohibit their entry into the country.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the act “brutally interferes in the internal affairs of China”, and urged the United States to “immediately correct its mistakes”.
“This so-called act deliberately slanders the human rights situation in Xinjiang and maliciously attacks Chinese government policy in Xinjiang,” the ministry said.
Activists say China has gathered at least a million Uyghurs and other Turkish Muslims and is trying to assimilate them by force by destroying their culture and punishing basic Islamic practices.
Beijing retorts that it operates vocational education centers that offer an alternative to Islamic extremism.
Trump signed the act when extracts from a explosive new book by his former national security adviser, John Bolton, said that the president had told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that he approved of the large-scale camps. detention.
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