{"id":737,"date":"2022-03-22T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/?p=737"},"modified":"2022-04-03T22:17:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T19:17:18","slug":"us-hits-chinese-officials-with-travel-bans-over-repressive-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"US hits Chinese officials with travel bans over \u2018repressive acts\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article-header\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead css-1wt8oh6\"><em>State Department accuses targeted Chinese officials of involvement in crackdown on religious minorities, among others.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"responsive-image\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><figure style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AP22080545470636-1.jpg?resize=770%2C513\" alt=\"Antony Blinken\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Secretary of State Antony Blinken did not identify which Chinese officials would be subjected to the ban nor say how many would be affected [Kevin Lamarque\/ Pool via AP Photo]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-info-block css-ti04u9\">\n<div class=\"social-share-buttons\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content css-1ck9wyi\">\n<p>United States President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is imposing travel bans on Chinese officials whom it accuses of repressing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/7\/8\/uighurs-timeline\">Uighur Muslims<\/a>, as well as other ethnic and religious minorities.<\/p>\n<p>The US State Department announced on Monday that it is barring the officials from travelling to the US because of their involvement in \u201crepressive acts\u201d and crackdowns on freedom of speech and religion in China and abroad.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-on\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"disco-widget\" data-widget-id=\"WI_cktj3ghn6000012oldnw5chzg\"><\/div>\n<p>The department did not identify which officials would be subject to the expanded ban, nor say how many would be affected.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/promoting-accountability-for-transnational-repression-committed-by-peoples-republic-of-china-prc-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>\u00a0that the sanctions are being applied to Chinese officials who \u201care believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, policies or actions aimed at repressing religious and spiritual practitioners, members of ethnic minority groups, dissidents, human rights defenders, journalists, labor organizers, civil society organizers, and peaceful protestors in China and beyond\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/12\/20\/us-appoints-new-tibet-coordinator-amid-tensions-with-china\">Tibet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations says at least\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/08\/10\/one-million-muslim-uighurs-held-in-secret-china-camps-un-panel\/\">one million Uighurs<\/a>\u00a0have been detained in so-called \u201ccounter-extremism centres\u201d in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups have said China\u2019s treatment of the Uighurs amounts to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/3\/10\/china-committed-genocide-against-uighurs-in-xinjiang-says-report\">genocide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/4\/19\/chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-is-crimes-against-humanity-report\">crimes against humanity<\/a>. Beijing has rejected these allegations and says its policies towards the Uighurs, as well as other minorities, are necessary to fend off extremism.<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-newsletter-slot\">\n<div class=\"sib-newsletter-form general-style\">\n<div class=\"sib-form-container\">\n<div class=\"sib-container--large sib-container--horizontal\">\n<form id=\"sib-form-general\" method=\"POST\" data-type=\"subscription\"><span class=\"sign-up-for-al-jazeera-container\"><span class=\"sign-up-for-al-jazeera\">Sign up for Al Jazeera<\/span><\/span><span class=\"newsletter-title\">Americas Coverage Newsletter<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sib-newsletter-form-fields-container \">\n<p><span class=\"newsletter-description-line\">US politics, Canada\u2019s multiculturalism, South America&#8217;s geopolitical rise\u2014we bring you the stories that matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sib-newsletter-form-fields\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The State Department sanctions come just days after Biden spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping amid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/15\/turning-point-war-in-ukraine-tests-shaky-us-china-relations\">rising US-China tensions<\/a>\u00a0over the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"aljazeera_incontent_dynamic2\" class=\"fs-dynamic\" data-slot=\"complete\" data-freestar-ad=\"__728x90 __336x280\" data-google-query-id=\"CI3fpvjU2fYCFYKkdwoddmkO9Q\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/15184186,5287\/aljazeera_incontent_dynamic_1__container__\">\n<div class=\"__fs-ancillary\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-inc=\"2\">The US has raised concerns that China may come to Russia\u2019s aid \u2013 either by giving military equipment or bypassing Western sanctions \u2013 in its increasingly brutal offensive in Ukraine, and\u00a0Biden warned Xi of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/18\/xi-tells-biden-ukraine-conflict-is-in-no-ones-interest\">implications and consequences<\/a>\u201d of such support during their call.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese leader, for his part, stressed the need to reach a negotiated agreement to end the conflict in Ukraine, while also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/19\/xi-warns-us-over-taiwan-impact-on-relations\">telling Biden<\/a>\u00a0that US-China relations could be negatively affected should the issue of Taiwan not be handled \u201cproperly\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1678251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1678251\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-1678251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-08T111553Z_1095126083_RC2AYS980HX1_RTRMADP_3_WOMENS-DAY-TURKEY.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513\" alt=\"Uighur Muslim woman\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Rights groups have said China\u2019s treatment of the Uighurs amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity [File: Murad Sezer\/Reuters]Taiwan has been a source of tension between Washington and Beijing, which claims the self-ruled island as part of its territory. The US, though it does not have formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan, is its most important international backer and arms supplier.<\/p>\n<div id=\"aljazeera_incontent_dynamic3\" class=\"fs-dynamic\" data-slot=\"complete\" data-freestar-ad=\"__728x90 __336x280\" data-google-query-id=\"CN6a1PnU2fYCFSKCdwodlJ0Lew\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/15184186,5287\/aljazeera_incontent_dynamic_2__container__\">\n<div class=\"__fs-ancillary\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-inc=\"3\">Meanwhile, the US Justice Department last week also announced charges against five men accused of acting on behalf of the Chinese government in a series of brazen and wide-ranging schemes to stalk and harass Chinese dissidents in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The criminal cases, filed in federal court in Brooklyn, alleged longstanding efforts to dig up dirt on dissidents, intimidate them, and stifle their speech.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, prosecutors charged eight people with working on behalf of the Chinese government in a pressure campaign aimed at coercing a New Jersey man who was wanted by Beijing into returning to China to face charges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-source\">SOURCE:\u00a0AL JAZEERA,\u00a0AP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Department accuses targeted Chinese officials of involvement in crackdown on religious minorities, among others. 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