The Chinese government has announced that it will impose sanctions on executives of U.S. government agencies and Canadian lawmakers as a countermeasure against the imposition of sanctions on human rights issues in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region by the United States and Canada. Did.
On the 22nd of this month, the United States and Canada said they were involved in human rights violations in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in step with the EU-European Union and the United Kingdom. Announced that it will impose sanctions on asset freezes and travel bans.
In response, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China targeted two executives of the U.S. government agency, the International Religious Freedom Commission, a member of the Canadian Parliament, and the International Human Rights Subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives of Canada on the 27th. Announced that it will impose sanctions.
Sanctions ban travel to China, Hong Kong, and Macau, as well as ban on business transactions and exchanges with China.
China has so far announced sanctions on some members of the European Parliament and the British Parliament, as well as groups, as a countermeasure against the EU and the United Kingdom, and sanctions are being exchanged over human rights issues in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.