New law will stop China's oppression of Uighurs

The new law calls for Trump's administration to impose tough demands on China to curb China's way of treating the country's Muslim minority Uighurs. The law would also give the US president greater powers to impose tougher sanctions on China if they do not treat the Uighurs better.

According to several human rights organizations, there are over a million Uyghurs and even Kazakhs in so-called retraining camps in the Xinjiang region. Prejudice about Uighurs in China says that the population consists of criminals or even terrorists. At the same time, the Chinese regime is trying to darken how the population is treated. Something that SVT reported on earlier.

In a report from Human Rights Watch, several people describe the conditions in the retraining camps.

"What happens is a kind of brainwashing, where they try to make us abandon our Muslim faith and force us to sing Chinese patriotic songs," says one of the witnesses.

The new bill has been voted on in the US House of Representatives and must now be passed by the Senate to become law. It also presupposes that President Donald Trump does not use his veto to stop the law. In the House of Representatives, which is controlled by the Democrats, the proposal was in any case voted in a large cross-border agreement, with 407 votes in favor and one against.

The trade conflict that is currently ongoing between the US and China can be aggravated if the bill is adopted. That's what CNBC writes.

China has reacted strongly to the bill. The English-language newspaper Global Times, controlled by the regime in China, reports that the regime thinks the situation in Xinjiang is better than ever and that there is great cohesion between the various ethnic groups living in the region. They also point out that what is happening in Xinjiang is about preventing "terrorism".

China also threatens to release a list of "unreliable players" if the law becomes a reality. For example, the list may include American companies and then be subject to extensive penalties.

China has already imposed sanctions on the United States after Donald Trump signed a resolution to support the Hong Kong protest movement. They target American independent organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Freedom House. China has also postponed processing applications for whether US naval vessels may visit Hong Kong.