Beijing: China on Sunday said it will take necessary measures to respond to the US blacklisting of Chinese companies over their alleged role in abuses of Uyghur people and other Muslim ethnic minorities.
No details were given, but China has denied allegations of arbitrary detention and forced labor in the far western region of Xinjiang and increasingly responded to sanctions against companies and officials with its own bans on visas and financial links.
The US Commerce Department said in a statement Friday that the electronics and technology firms and other businesses helped enable Beijing’s campaign of repression, mass detention and high-technology surveillance against Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.
