{"id":15715,"date":"2020-07-13T14:46:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T09:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15715"},"modified":"2020-07-13T14:46:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T09:46:44","slug":"china-slaps-tit-for-tat-sanctions-on-us-officials-over-uighur-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15715","title":{"rendered":"China slaps tit-for-tat sanctions on US officials over Uighur rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a tit-for-tat move, China on Monday announced sanctions on US lawmakers and an envoy over the issue of Uighur rights in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Beijing sanctioned officials at US\u2019 China Commission; Sam Brown back, ambassador for International Religious Freedom, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith, print media reported.<\/p>\n<p>China said on Friday it would take reciprocal measures against the US for sanctioning a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party and three other officials over human rights abuses in China\u2019s Xinjiang region, home to Uighur Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China has decided to take reciprocal measures against relevant US institutions and individuals that have behaved badly over Xinjiang,&#8221; Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian had said.<\/p>\n<p>The US\u2019 China Commission is a congressional-executive commission that was created to monitor human rights and rule of law in China which submits an annual report to the US president and the Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The US Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned Chen Quanguo, Communist Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.<\/p>\n<p>Chen was appointed to the region in 2016, according to the US statement, with a &#8220;notorious history of intensifying security operations&#8221; in the Tibetan autonomous region to tighten control over the Tibetan ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n<p>The senior government official is also known as the &#8220;architect&#8221; of mass detention camps in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions designations are under the Global Magnit sky Act passed by the US Congress in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA In a tit-for-tat move, China on Monday announced sanctions on US lawmakers and an envoy over the issue of Uighur rights in Xinjiang. China&#8217;s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Beijing sanctioned officials at US\u2019 China Commission; Sam Brown back, ambassador for International Religious Freedom, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1380,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15716,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15715\/revisions\/15716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}