U.S. To Impose Visa Bans On Chinese Tech Firms Over Rights Abuses In Xinjiang, Elsewhere

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Radio Free Europe 7/15/2020

U.S. To Impose Visa Bans On Chinese Tech Firms Over Rights Abuses In Xinjiang, Elsewhere

The United States says it is imposing travel bans on employees of the technology giant Huawei and other Chinese companies Washington has accused of facilitating human right violations around the world, including in China's western province of Xinjiang.

In a statement on July 15, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described Huawei as “an arm of the [Chinese Communist Party’s] surveillance state that censors political dissidents and enables mass internment camps in Xinjiang and the indentured servitude of its population shipped all over China.”

Separately, the secretary of state told reporters that Huawei employees found to be providing “material support to regimes engaging in human rights violations and abuses globally" would be hit with sanctions.

It is not clear how many Huawei employees would be affected.

Pompeo said in his statement that telecommunications companies around the world “should consider themselves on notice: If they are doing business with Huawei, they are doing business with human rights abusers.”

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