{"id":148178,"date":"2021-12-24T03:09:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T03:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=148178"},"modified":"2021-12-24T03:09:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T03:09:51","slug":"egregious-psaki-says-human-rights-abuses-reason-for-olympics-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/business\/egregious-psaki-says-human-rights-abuses-reason-for-olympics-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"&#39;Egregious&#39;: Psaki says human rights abuses reason for Olympics boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>Washington<\/cite>US President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law legislation that bans imports from China&#8217;s Xinjiang region over concerns about forced labor, the White House said, provoking an angry Chinese condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act is part of the US pushback against Beijing&#8217;s treatment of China&#8217;s Uyghur Muslim minority, which Washington has labeled genocide.<br \/>\nThe bill passed Congress this month after lawmakers reached a compromise between House and Senate versions. <\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>Key to the legislation is a &#8220;rebuttable presumption&#8221; that assumes all goods from Xinjiang, where Beijing has established detention camps for Uyghurs and other Muslim groups, are made with forced labor. It bars imports unless it can be proven otherwise.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>Some goods \u2014 such as cotton, tomatoes, and polysilicon used in solar-panel manufacturing \u2014 are designated &#8220;high priority&#8221; for enforcement action.<\/p>\n<p>China denies abuses in Xinjiang, a major cotton producer that also supplies much of the world&#8217;s materials for solar panels.<br \/>\nIts Washington embassy said the act &#8220;ignores the truth and maliciously slanders the human rights situation in Xinjiang.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;This is a severe violation of international law and norms of international relations, and a gross interference in China&#8217;s internal affairs. China strongly condemns and firmly rejects it,&#8221; embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu said in an emailed statement.<br \/>\nHe said China &#8220;would respond further in light of the development of the situation,&#8221; but did not elaborate.<br \/>\nNury Turkel, Uyghur-American vice chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, told Reuters this month the bill&#8217;s effectiveness would depend on the willingness of Biden&#8217;s administration to ensure it is effective, especially when companies seek waivers.<br \/>\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Biden&#8217;s approval of the law \u202funderscored\u202f the &#8220;United States&#8217; commitment to combating forced labor, including in the context of the ongoing genocide in Xinjiang.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The State Department is committed to working with Congress and our interagency partners to continue addressing forced labor in Xinjiang and to strengthen international action against this egregious violation of human rights,&#8221; he said in a statement.<br \/>\nOne of the bill&#8217;s co-authors, Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley, said it was necessary to &#8220;send a resounding and unequivocal message against genocide and slave labor.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Now &#8230; we can finally ensure that American consumers and businesses can buy goods without inadvertent complicity in China&#8217;s horrific human rights abuses,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>In its final days in January, the Trump administration announced a ban on all Xinjiang cotton and tomato products.<br \/>\nThe US Customs and Border Protection agency estimated then that about $9 billion of cotton products and $10 million of tomato products were imported from China in the past year.<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/23\/business\/biden-bans-xinjiang-imports-china-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WashingtonUS President Joe Biden on Thursday signed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23051],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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