The Biden administration in the United States imposes sanctions such as asset freezes on two Chinese people who run a fishing company for being involved in human rights violations, and strengthens pressure as illegal operations of Chinese fishing boats are confirmed one after another. It seems that there is an aim.
"13 months without a single port call, 5 crew members died"
On the 9th, the U.S. Treasury Department added two Chinese nationals and a total of 10 groups, including fishing companies whose chairmen and presidents, to the sanctions list for being involved in human rights violations and imposed asset freezes. Announced.
Among the sanctioned groups, a company in Dalian in northeastern China receives a subsidy of about $8 million from the Chinese government every year, or more than 1 billion yen in Japanese yen. For 13 months from February, the ship continued to operate in the Pacific without a single port call, and five crew members died in a harsh working environment where the average working hours per day was 18 hours.
The bodies of the three people who died on the fishing boat were swept out to sea and never returned home.
The fishing boats were also involved in illegal shark fin-only operations, catching more than 700 kilograms of fins.
The Biden administration has been increasingly criticized for repeatedly illegally operating Chinese fishing boats and damaging the economies of neighboring countries, and it seems that the sanctions are intended to increase pressure on China.
In addition, the Biden administration imposed sanctions such as asset freezes on two former senior officials of the security authorities in the Tibet Autonomous Region, alleging that they were involved in human rights violations.