Genocide designation The U.S. has designated China's treatment of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang province as a genocide. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the move just before the Biden team takes over—it could have implications for the Biden administration's policies regarding China, though Biden himself has already said he favors the "genocide" label. Fortune
Good thing all of our Great American companies are getting cheap labor though and your iphone costs 1k instead of 2k. Thank goodness. And in turn they can tell us about morals and how we should speak and what is acceptable speech. Did we just come full circle??
Would've been nice to call them out 2 years ago not last week in office with the only intention being handing out a turd sandwich to Biden.
there goes the book deals: China Slaps Sanctions On 28 Trump Administration Officials, Including Mike Pompeo China imposed sanctions on 28 former Trump administration officials, including outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on Wednesday. In a statement released just minutes after President Biden took office, China's foreign ministry said it had decided to sanction those "who have seriously violated China's sovereignty and who have been mainly responsible for such U.S. moves on China-related issues." The list of names features former Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, former National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien, former U.N. ambassador Kelly Craft and recently resigned Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger. Former national security adviser John Bolton and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon were also included. The sanctions prohibit those individuals and their immediate family members from entering mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao. They are also restricted from doing business with China, as are any companies or institutions associated with them. "Over the past few years, some anti-China politicians in the United States, out of their selfish political interests and prejudice and hatred against China and showing no regard for the interests of the Chinese and American people, have planned, promoted and executed a series of crazy moves which have gravely interfered in China's internal affairs, undermined China's interests, offended the Chinese people, and seriously disrupted China-U.S. relations," the ministry said. The move comes just one day after Pompeo issued a forceful statement accusing China of committing genocide against Muslim Uighurs and other minority groups in its Xinjiang region, for which the U.S. sanctioned several Chinese officials in July. That was one of numerous instances of sanctions, visa bans and trade restrictions imposed on Chinese politicians and Communist Party officials in the Trump administration's final year. Relations between the U.S. and China deteriorated considerably under the previous administration, which took an unusually confrontational approach. Pompeo and other officials referred to China as constituting America's greatest threat, as NPR's John Ruwitch has reported. In fact, Bolton appeared to celebrate the sanction against him, calling it "great news" in a tweet posted Wednesday afternoon. "I accept this prestigious recognition of my unrelenting efforts to defend American freedom," he wrote. It is unclear what changes Biden plans, but Ruwitch notes, "Even if the Biden team moves swiftly to put the U.S.-China relationship back on a less antagonistic track, Beijing will be wary after the dramatic changes of the past four years."