Washington: The US Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to ban all the products from Xinjiang over China’s rights abuse in the region.
The latest efforts by the US are to punish China for the forced labour and genocide of Uyghurs and other minorities in the region. Senator Marco Rubio from Florida introduced the legislation with Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon.
They said in a statement after the passage of the bill that the message to Beijing “and any international company that profits from forced labour in Xinjiang is clear: no more.”
It added that the US would “not turn a blind eye” to the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s “crimes against humanity,” nor “allow corporations a free pass to profit from those horrific abuses.”