Beijing threatens consequences over 'malicious' US Uighur law
18 June, 2020
Beijing about Thursday (Jun 18) slammed a fresh US law that could sanction Chinese officials more than the mass incarceration of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities, stating it "maliciously attacks" China's insurance policy in the Xinjiang place.
China will "resolutely hit back and the US will bear the responsibility of all subsequent implications", the Chinese foreign ministry said in a affirmation after US President Donald Trump signed the Uighur Individual Rights Act into legislation on Wednesday.
The legislation, which passed Congress almost unanimously, requires the US administration to decide which Chinese officials are in charge of the "arbitrary detention, torture and harassment" of Uighurs and additional minorities.
AMERICA would then freeze any assets the officials carry in the world's major economy and ban their entry into the country.
China's foreign ministry stated in a affirmation that the action "rudely interferes found in China's internal affairs", and urged the US to "quickly correct its mistakes".
"This so-called action deliberately slanders the people rights situation found in Xinjiang and maliciously attacks China's policy in governing Xinjiang," the ministry said.
Activists say China offers rounded up at least 1 million Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims and is wanting to forcibly assimilate them by wiping out their customs and punishing basic Islamic practices.
Beijing counters that it's operating vocational educational centres offering an alternative to Islamic extremism.
Trump signed the action just seeing as excerpts emerged from a great explosive new book by his past national security advisor John Bolton, who said the president told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that he approved of the vast detention camps.
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