US House passes Uyghur Act calling for tough sanctions on Beijing over Xinjiang camps

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US House passes Uyghur Act calling for tough sanctions on Beijing over Xinjiang camps

By Ben Westcott and Haley Byrd, CNN
Updated 4:48 AM ET, Wed December 4, 2019

Hong Kong (CNN)The US House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday demanding a tougher response from the Trump administration over reports of mass detention centers run by the Chinese government in Xinjiang.

The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, which still needs to gain approval from the US Senate, calls for concrete measures to be taken against Beijing over allegations that up to two million Muslim-majority Uyghurs have been detained in "re-education" camps in the far western region.

The Chinese government reacted with fury to the proposed legislation, which Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying said "wantonly smeared China's counter-terrorism and de-radicalization efforts."

"The issue that Xinjiang faces is not about ethnicity, religion or human rights. Rather, it is about fighting violence, terrorism and separatism," Hua said in a statement Wednesday. At her daily press conference, Hua added that the US would have to pay "the due price" for any wrong actions.


"It's impossible that it will not affect China-US relations or cooperation in important areas," she said.

The bill, which terms the detention centers "political re-education camps," recommends targeted sanctions on members of the Chinese government and the Communist Party, as well as bans on the sale of US-made goods to "any state agent in Xinjiang."

The vote represents a growing consensus in Washington to take a tougher line with Beijing over allegations of human rights abuses and comes amid growing tensions between the US and China across a number of fronts.

Billions of dollars of tariffs on American and Chinese goods have been imposed by both countries in recent months, in an escalating dispute that has caused anxiety in world markets.
Both countries are currently attempting to negotiate a "phase one" deal in their yearlong trade war.

A deal had originally been suggested for December, but in London, Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said it may be delayed until after the 2020 US Presidential election in November

Having passed the US House of Representatives by a vote of 407 to 1, the Uyghur act will now head to the US Senate for approval, before being sent to Trump.

US, China tensions

The passage of the bill comes after two sets of leaked documents published by global media threw a spotlight on the mass detention of Uyghurs and other minority groups in Xinjiang.
The documents appeared to show the camps were set up under orders of the top Communist Party leadership to restrict the Uyghurs' religion and culture practices while bringing them closer to China's majority Han population.

The Chinese government has long maintained the camps are voluntary "vocational training centers," which have successfully worked to secure and "de-radicalize" the region.
The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act is the second piece of major US legislation denouncing allegations of Chinese human rights abuses to pass the House in less than a month.
US President Trump signed into law the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on November 27 in response to growing concerns that the city's special freedoms were being undermined by Beijing.

In response, the Chinese government banned all US military visits to Hong Kong. Beijing has strongly condemned the US laws and accused Washington of supporting and perpetuating violence in the Asian financial hub. Source

US only doing drama or els nothing...

 

[Uguduwa]

US is not appeasing muslims. just taking advantage of the situation otherwise the position of the whole civilized world regarding radical islam is the same that it should be wiped out one way or another.

 

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US House passes Uyghur Act calling for tough sanctions on Beijing over Xinjiang camps

By Ben Westcott and Haley Byrd, CNN
Updated 4:48 AM ET, Wed December 4, 2019

Hong Kong (CNN)The US House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday demanding a tougher response from the Trump administration over reports of mass detention centers run by the Chinese government in Xinjiang.

The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, which still needs to gain approval from the US Senate, calls for concrete measures to be taken against Beijing over allegations that up to two million Muslim-majority Uyghurs have been detained in "re-education" camps in the far western region.

The Chinese government reacted with fury to the proposed legislation, which Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying said "wantonly smeared China's counter-terrorism and de-radicalization efforts."

"The issue that Xinjiang faces is not about ethnicity, religion or human rights. Rather, it is about fighting violence, terrorism and separatism," Hua said in a statement Wednesday. At her daily press conference, Hua added that the US would have to pay "the due price" for any wrong actions.


"It's impossible that it will not affect China-US relations or cooperation in important areas," she said.

The bill, which terms the detention centers "political re-education camps," recommends targeted sanctions on members of the Chinese government and the Communist Party, as well as bans on the sale of US-made goods to "any state agent in Xinjiang."

The vote represents a growing consensus in Washington to take a tougher line with Beijing over allegations of human rights abuses and comes amid growing tensions between the US and China across a number of fronts.

Billions of dollars of tariffs on American and Chinese goods have been imposed by both countries in recent months, in an escalating dispute that has caused anxiety in world markets.
Both countries are currently attempting to negotiate a "phase one" deal in their yearlong trade war.

A deal had originally been suggested for December, but in London, Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said it may be delayed until after the 2020 US Presidential election in November

Having passed the US House of Representatives by a vote of 407 to 1, the Uyghur act will now head to the US Senate for approval, before being sent to Trump.

US, China tensions

The passage of the bill comes after two sets of leaked documents published by global media threw a spotlight on the mass detention of Uyghurs and other minority groups in Xinjiang.
The documents appeared to show the camps were set up under orders of the top Communist Party leadership to restrict the Uyghurs' religion and culture practices while bringing them closer to China's majority Han population.

The Chinese government has long maintained the camps are voluntary "vocational training centers," which have successfully worked to secure and "de-radicalize" the region.
The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act is the second piece of major US legislation denouncing allegations of Chinese human rights abuses to pass the House in less than a month.
US President Trump signed into law the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on November 27 in response to growing concerns that the city's special freedoms were being undermined by Beijing.

In response, the Chinese government banned all US military visits to Hong Kong. Beijing has strongly condemned the US laws and accused Washington of supporting and perpetuating violence in the Asian financial hub. Source

what about the blacksites dear?

 

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US House passes Uyghur Act calling for tough sanctions on Beijing over Xinjiang camps

By Ben Westcott and Haley Byrd, CNN
Updated 4:48 AM ET, Wed December 4, 2019

Hong Kong (CNN)The US House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday demanding a tougher response from the Trump administration over reports of mass detention centers run by the Chinese government in Xinjiang.

The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, which still needs to gain approval from the US Senate, calls for concrete measures to be taken against Beijing over allegations that up to two million Muslim-majority Uyghurs have been detained in "re-education" camps in the far western region.

The Chinese government reacted with fury to the proposed legislation, which Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying said "wantonly smeared China's counter-terrorism and de-radicalization efforts."

"The issue that Xinjiang faces is not about ethnicity, religion or human rights. Rather, it is about fighting violence, terrorism and separatism," Hua said in a statement Wednesday. At her daily press conference, Hua added that the US would have to pay "the due price" for any wrong actions.


"It's impossible that it will not affect China-US relations or cooperation in important areas," she said.

The bill, which terms the detention centers "political re-education camps," recommends targeted sanctions on members of the Chinese government and the Communist Party, as well as bans on the sale of US-made goods to "any state agent in Xinjiang."

The vote represents a growing consensus in Washington to take a tougher line with Beijing over allegations of human rights abuses and comes amid growing tensions between the US and China across a number of fronts.

Billions of dollars of tariffs on American and Chinese goods have been imposed by both countries in recent months, in an escalating dispute that has caused anxiety in world markets.
Both countries are currently attempting to negotiate a "phase one" deal in their yearlong trade war.

A deal had originally been suggested for December, but in London, Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said it may be delayed until after the 2020 US Presidential election in November

Having passed the US House of Representatives by a vote of 407 to 1, the Uyghur act will now head to the US Senate for approval, before being sent to Trump.

US, China tensions

The passage of the bill comes after two sets of leaked documents published by global media threw a spotlight on the mass detention of Uyghurs and other minority groups in Xinjiang.
The documents appeared to show the camps were set up under orders of the top Communist Party leadership to restrict the Uyghurs' religion and culture practices while bringing them closer to China's majority Han population.

The Chinese government has long maintained the camps are voluntary "vocational training centers," which have successfully worked to secure and "de-radicalize" the region.
The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act is the second piece of major US legislation denouncing allegations of Chinese human rights abuses to pass the House in less than a month.
US President Trump signed into law the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on November 27 in response to growing concerns that the city's special freedoms were being undermined by Beijing.

In response, the Chinese government banned all US military visits to Hong Kong. Beijing has strongly condemned the US laws and accused Washington of supporting and perpetuating violence in the Asian financial hub. Source

Why don't they 1st pass a bill against dropping drone bombs on the heads of innocent Muslim women and children????

radical islam

What is the difference between radical and extremist?

 

[maximuswarrior]

Also very odd that a mostly Christian country is calling out an atheist country for it's treatment of Muslims, whereas not a single peep out of any Muslim countries. Countries that call themselves Islamic are looking the other way at the treatment being handed out to their own Muslim brothers! explain THAT!

Just because you claim that Uyghur are being treated badly doesn't mean that every Muslim nation is going to believe your BS.

LOL you got humiliated when dozens of mostly Islamic nations signed a letter in support of China at the UN. That shows us how seriously your propaganda against China is taken.

 

[TexasJohn]

You just answered your own question.

And what question did I ask? I don't see me asking any question!

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

And what question did I ask? I don't see me asking any question!

You were prying at what I said so the motion of your statement is a question at its core.

 

[TexasJohn]

You were prying at what I said so the motion of your statement is a question at its core.

Now that's twisted logic right there!! LOL. Whatever, dude

 

[925boy]

Good.

Now US needs to move against India against India on Kashmir and Jews on Palestine.

The US has been doing this, especially for Jews and Palestine, for decades......so what is the "record"/state of accounting for all of these failed efforts?? This is why Russia's power in the world(especially in the ME) grew, because some countries see Russia as new and different type of world power brokers, and thats what you need when whats been happening historically for a long time hasnt succesfully resolved these problems.

I support this action by the US govt though. It looks like China is forcing people to be in those camps and experience the "re-education" in those camps. That is wrong. China needs to try more humane and ethical and dignified methods of reducing terrorism risk or whatever problems the Chinese govt cares about.

 

[beijingwalker]

What else US can do beside passing those toilet paper value bills?

 

[OIO]

The US has been doing this, especially for Jews and Palestine, for decades......so what is the "record"/state of accounting for all of these failed efforts?? This is why Russia's power in the world(especially in the ME) grew, because some countries see Russia as new and different type of world power brokers, and thats what you need when whats been happening historically for a long time hasnt succesfully resolved these problems.

I support this action by the US govt though. It looks like China is forcing people to be in those camps and experience the "re-education" in those camps. That is wrong. China needs to try more humane and ethical and dignified methods of reducing terrorism risk or whatever problems the Chinese govt cares about.

Re-education is best way till now, which country is doing better?

 

[beijingwalker]

Not even on Muslim country in the world sides with US over Xinjiang, what a shameful failure to US diplomacy... it's just..a pathetic failure for the Muslim card that US has been playing so hard for so long.

 

[RabzonKhan]

China has a right to defend itself against violent separatists and religious terrorists, but unfortunately what the Chinese Communists are doing in Xinjiang is without any doubt cultural genocide. The Communist internment camps are forcefully brainwashing Uighurs. And the scary part is what the Chinese were doing in Xinjiang against the Uighurs and other ethnic minorities is now spreading in China’s Hui Muslims dominated regions.

So, the question is if this was all about separatists and religious terrorists, as China would want us to believe, then why target Hui Muslims, who do not live in Xinjiang and are not involved in any kind of separatist or religious terrorist activities. The Hui, unlike the Uighurs, speak Mandarin and are quite assimilated into Chinese society and mainly live in the north-west and central region.

What really makes me sick is Muslim countries cowardly response, if they don’t have the guts to condemn or protest, at least they should stop defending China’s brutal cultural genocide of those poor people.

 

[xyxmt]

How strange it's that Usa is doing something good for just pressing on China. If this case would have been in another country, probably they wouldn't care. Anyway this is a positive development from our point of view.

You mean like in Kashmir, like in Palestine?

 

[beijingwalker]

So, the question is if this was all about separatists and religious terrorists, as China would want us to believe, then why target Hui Muslims, who do not live in Xinjiang and are not involved in any kind of separatist or religious terrorist activities. The Hui, unlike the Uighurs, speak Mandarin and are quite assimilated into Chinese society and mainly live in the north-west and central region.

That's a lie, I have many Hui friends myself, they love China just like every Chinese, they are basically Han, you really don't know what you are talking about. If a Han did something conspicuous in China, they will also be investigated and questioned, it has nothing to do with people's ethnic background.