The House of Representatives has adopted a law asking businesses to prove that property from this region of China are not derived from the forced labor of the Uygun minority.
The US Chamber of Representatives has adopted, Wednesday, December 8, legislation restricting imports of products manufactured in Xinjiang. It is for elected officials to condemn the “forced labor” of the UïGoure Muslim minority in this region of northwestern China, on the climbing background of the tensions between Washington and Beijing.
The members of the Lower House of the Congress have approved 428 votes against a text that asks companies to demonstrate “with clear and convincing evidence” that no imported since this region has been manufactured by work. strength. “At the moment, Beijing orchestrates a brutal and accelerated repression campaign against the Ouygour people and other Muslim minorities,” said Chamber of Representative Chair, Nancy Pelosi, before the vote.
“In the Xinjiang and all over China, millions of people undergo scandalous human rights violations: mass surveillance and disciplinary police for mass torture, including cell isolation and forced sterilizations, by the intimidation of journalists and activists who dared to explain the truth, she emphasized. The exploitation of forced labor by the Chinese government crosses the oceans to our coast and in The whole world. “.
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Beijing, who rejects the charges on his treatment of hears, has not reacted immediately to the vote of the American Parliament. The United States Senate voted a similar bill in July. Both texts will have to be harmonized. The final version will then require a ratification by President Joe Biden, but the White House did not clearly expressed on text support.
This vote of the representatives occurs a few days after the announcement of a diplomatic boycott by the United States of the Beijing Olympic Games of Beijing 2022 to denounce what Washington qualifies as “genocide” of the Ouygun minority and Other human rights violations.
In another vote, the House of Representatives unanimously adopted a resolution stating that the International Olympic Committee “did not comply with its own human rights commitments” in the context of the doubts concerning The safety of the Chinese Star of Tennis Peng Shuai, who accused a senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party of sexual assault.