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The Biden administration on Tuesday escalated its rhetoric against American companies doing business in China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, calling US investments a potential threat and warning American firms that they may wind up breaking the law if they don’t leave the region. The new US advisory includes pages of details describing the legal and reputational risks for American firms operating in Xinjiang, and warns them to brace for serious consequences if they stay there and conti...

Author of the article: Mark Bonokoski Publishing date: Jul 12, 2021  •  1 day ago  •  3 minute read  •  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau places a teddy bear at an unmarked grave on Cowessess First Nation, where a search had found 751 unmarked graves from the former Marieval Indian Residential School near Grayson, Saskatchewan, July 6, 2021. Photo by SHANNON VANRAES /POOL/AFP via Getty Images Article content U.S. President Donald Trump kept calling it “the China flu.” He put a...

The State Department placed China on a small list of countries whose governments engage in a "policy or pattern" of human trafficking, specifically noting the treatment of Uyghurs and other minorities. The report said that, over the past four years, the Chinese government "has carried out a mass detention and political indoctrination campaign" against the Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang, adding that "the courageous voices of survivors, their family memb...

The move targeting Chinese manufacturer Hoshine Silicon Industry (Shanshan) Co., Ltd., announced Thursday, has implications for solar’s supply chain and could force U.S. companies to find material elsewhere. It comes after both the Trump and Biden administrations accused China of “genocide” in a campaign to erase the culture of the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs. “Personnel at all U.S. ports of entry have been instructed to immediately begin detaining shipments that contain silica-based p...

Ethnic groups moved by CPC exhibitions 1 A delegation made up of a number of Chinas ethnic groups visits the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing on Wednesday. The group comprised 516 role models devoted to national unity and the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, of whom 436 are Party members. WANG ZHUANGFEI/CHINA DAILY A delegation of representatives from ethnic groups across the country visited the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing on Wednesday,...

A delegation made up of a number of Chinas ethnic groups visits the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing on Wednesday. The group comprised 516 role models devoted to national unity and the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, of whom 436 are Party members. WANG ZHUANGFEI/CHINA DAILY      A delegation of representatives from ethnic groups across the country visited the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing on Wednesday, one day ahead of celebrations for the CPCs 100th...

Concerned about forced labor, U.S. bans some Chinese imports Robert Besser 26 Jun 2021, 12:35 GMT+10 Cracking down on forced labor allegations in China, the Biden administration on Wednesday banned the imports of a key solar panel chemicals from China-based Hoshine Silicon Industry Separately, the U.S. Commerce Department restricted exports to Hoshine, three other Chinese companies and the paramilitary Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps The sources said the United States is continuing t...

Cracking down on forced labor allegations in China, the Biden administration on Wednesday banned the imports of a key solar panel chemicals from China-based Hoshine Silicon Industry

Published on: Saturday, June 26, 2021 By: AFP Text Size: Members of Women Muslim Uighur minority hold placards and flags of east Turkestan as they demonstrate against the Chinese government near the China consulate in Istanbul in March of 2021. BEIJING: China on Friday hit out at a “bandit-like” US government after Washington banned imports of solar panel materials from a Chinese company and placed trade restrictions on four others for alleged use of forced labour in Xinjiang. The White Hou...

New measures block imports from a major Chinese producer of solar panel inputs and blacklists others.