WASHINGTON: Biden Administration said that Thursday imposed new sanctions on several biotech companies and China’s supervision for action in Xinjiang Province, the final step against Beijing for human rights violations in the western region of the country.
The Commerce Department targets Chinese military medicine and 11 research institutions that focus on using biotechnology to support the Chinese military.
The Ministry of Finance is also set to publish punishment on several Chinese entities, according to a senior administrative official who talks about the condition of anonymity to discuss the steps that will be announced soon.
The official, explained the actions of the Ministry of Commerce, noted that US intelligence has determined that Beijing has formed a high-tech supervision system throughout Xinjiang which uses biometric face recognition and has collected DNA samples from all residents, aged 12 to 65 years, in Xinjiang- systematic efforts to press Uighur.
The White House announced last week will hold diplomatic boycott from the upcoming winter Olympics in Beijing, quoting “terrible human rights violations and atrocities in Xinjiang.” US athletes will continue to compete but Biden will not send an ordinary contingent of officials.
Administration also said this week that he supported the bipartisan law that forbade imports to the US from Xinjiang unless the company could show items that were not produced by forced labor.
China denied harassment and said the steps taken were needed to fight terrorism and separatist movements.