The Biden administration in the United States has announced that it will add 14 new Chinese companies with high-tech surveillance technology to the trade sanctions list for being involved in human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region by the Chinese government.
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced on the 9th that it will add 14 Chinese companies to the list where trade transactions such as exports of U.S. companies' products are virtually prohibited.
The reason for this is that the 14 companies were involved in human rights violations such as the detention of a large number of Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and high-tech surveillance by the Chinese government.
"We will continue to take strong and decisive steps against human rights abusers," Secretary of Commerce Lemond said in a statement.
In late last month, the Biden administration took a stricter approach to human rights violations, including adding five Chinese companies related to solar panels that were allegedly involved in forced labor in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to the sanctions list.
In response, the Chinese government has opposed such things as "strongly condemning sanctions based on incorrect information," and human rights issues have become a major focus of the US-China conflict.