WASHINGTON: The Biden government was set on Friday to add more than 10 Chinese companies to its economy’s blacklist for alleged violations of human rights and high-tech supervision in Xinjiang, two sources told Reuters.
The actions of the US Trade Department will follow the announcement last month add five other companies and other Chinese entities with a blacklist on charges of forced labor in the distant Chinese region.
The addition to the list of entities of the Trade Department is part of the Biden administration effort to request China’s accountability for human rights violations, said Source.
China rejected allegations of genocide and forced labor in Xinjiang and said the policy was needed to make the separatists and extremists of the religion planned to attack and cause tensions between most of the largest ethnic ethnicities and Han, the largest ethnic group in China.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.
One source said the department planned to add 14 Chinese companies to a list of entities for violations reported in Xinjiang.
The identity of the company added is not immediately known.
Some companies from other countries are also set to add to the blacklist department as soon as Friday.
The White House declined to comment, while the Ministry of Commerce did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.
The latest action shows President Joe Biden aims to suppress China for what the administration is said to worsen human rights violations of the population of Uyghur in Xinjiang.
In general, the companies registered by entities are required to apply for a license from the Ministry of Commerce and face severe supervision when they request permission to receive goods from US suppliers.
Last month, the Ministry of Commerce said it added five Chinese entities “to accept or take advantage of forced labor in the implementation of the Representative Campaign of the People’s Republic of China on Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region.” The department said actions in June were targeting the ability of five entities, including Chinese-based solar panel materials Hoshine Silicon Industry Co., “to access commodities, software, and technology …
and is part of the efforts of the US government to take strong actions against The ongoing Chinese suppression campaign against Muslim minority groups “in Xinjiang.
This is not the first time the US government targets Chinese companies related to allegations of high-tech supervision activities in Xinjiang.
In 2019, Trump administration added several artificial intelligence startups on China to its economy’s blacklist for their treatment of Muslim minorities.
The Ministry of Commerce below Trump targets 20 Chinese public security bureaus and eight companies including Hikvision video surveillance companies, and leaders in the Sensetime Group LTD and Megvii Technology Coach Technology Ltd.
The Trade Department said that in 2019 the entity was involved in “high technology supervision of Uighurs , Kazakh, and members of other Muslim minority groups.
“Experts and UN rights groups estimate more than one million people, most of them Uyghur and other Muslim minority members have been detained in recent years in a broad camp system in Xinjiang.