Chinese companies that have banned the US include surveillance equipment maker Hikvision, artificial intelligence companies Megvii Technology and Sense Time
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The United States has blacklisted 28 Chinese companies in the wake of alleged violations of the Uyghurs Muslim minority rights in China. According to the news agency AFP, the US Treasury Department on Monday announced blacklisting of Chinese companies. Following this announcement, these companies would not be able to buy and sell products from US companies without the approval of the federal government. Secretary Finance Wilbur Ross has said that the United States cannot and will not tolerate brutal violence against minorities in China. Chinese companies that have been banned by the US include surveillance equipment maker Hikvision, artificial intelligence companies Megvii Technology and Sense Time, according to reports. The United States has announced the blacklisting of Chinese companies at a time when talks are underway to resume trade between the two countries this week. Trade and trade talks between China and the US are likely to be affected following the recent announcement of sanctions on Chinese companies. On Monday, the White House announced that talks between the United States and China would begin Thursday. During which, Chinese Ambassador to China Liu He will meet with US Secretary of Commerce Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
It should be remembered that the war between the two major economic powers of the world began when the two countries raised taxes on each other’s imported products. China has been accused of keeping 100,000 Muslim Uyghurs minorities in various camps in Xinjiang province, while Washington says China has reminded Nazi Germany. At the UN General Assembly meeting last month, the US State Department also held an event to highlight the alleged atrocities on Uyghurs Muslims. At the event, US Ambassador to the United States John J. Sullivan alleged that the Chinese government is preventing Muslims from reading the Prayr and Holy Quran, while mosques have been destroyed there on a large scale. According to him, under a deliberate plan by the Communist Party of China, Muslim minorities are being denied the right to religious freedom.
Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo announces visa sanctions on Chinese and Communist Party officials, who are responsible for detaining and torturing members of the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Cargas and other Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang region of China, or are involved in the crime. The announcement states that such a family would have similar restrictions. Mike Pompeo has said that the government of China has continued to treat the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Cargas and other members of the Uyghurs Muslim minority groups in the semi-autonomous region of Xinjiang.
He said that in addition to the 28 Chinese companies that were blacklisted by the US Department of Commerce on Monday, these visa restrictions are in addition. It is reported that it includes the Public bureau, commercial companies and the elements involved in the Chinese surveillance process in Xinjiang, the detention and the brutal tactics of torture. In a statement, Pompeo described these brutal movements in detail, saying that in these repressive operations large numbers of people are detained in detention camps, monitoring with the help of modern technology, cultural and religious rituals and expressions are strictly guarded, however, it is difficult for those returning to China to live in China.
The Foreign Ministry statement states that the United States calls on the People’s Republic of China to immediately stop repression in Xinjiang, where people are detained for torture, they should be released and Chinese Muslim groups living overseas should not be forced to come to the country. Mike Pompeo said protection of human rights is of paramount importance and all countries must adhere to the sanctity of human rights obligations and commitments. In this regard, he said that the United States would continue to review human rights violations and look closely at accountability.
