China says it is banning a United States research company and two analysts who have reported extensively on claims of human rights abuses committed against Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups native to the country’s far northwestern region of Xinjiang.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning was quoted as announcing late Tuesday night that Los Angeles-based research and data analytics firm Kharon, its director of investigations, Edmund Xu, and Nicole Morgret, a human rights analyst affiliated with the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, would be barred from traveling to China. Also, any assets or property they have in China will be frozen and organizations and individuals in China are prohibited from making transactions or otherwise cooperating with them.

In a statement on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, Mao said the sanctions against the company, Xu and Morgret were retaliation for a yearly U.S. government report on human rights in Xinjiang. Uyghurs and other natives of the region share religious, linguistic and cultural links with the scattered peoples of Central Asia and have long resented the Chinese Communist Party’s heavy-handed control and attempts to assimilate them with the majority Han ethnic group.

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      10 months ago

      They might be a clown country, but did they deserve to be sanctioned by China in this matter?

      I mean, sanctioning the US is usually the answer to most of the world’s problems. But each case should be evaluated individually.

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        10 months ago

        The clowns are the ones sanctioning people for calling out their human rights violations, stupid.

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                10 months ago

                I won’t need healthcare for my ceiling collapsing on me because a contractor took a bribe and used improper materials to get some more $$$. Turns out proper building codes are kinda nice.

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                  10 months ago

                  Hey that hospital was made out of the strongest cardboard we could get at the cheapest price.

                  . . . Or chabuduo.

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                    10 months ago

                    Tofu dreg construction. If you want to know why China is demolishing entire city blocks of high density housing that was built and sold but was never livable. Now it’s all dust in the wind ;]