(Brussels / Canberra / Beijing Comprehensive News) The European Union imposed sanctions on four Chinese officials and a entity on the grounds of infringing the human rights of Xinjiang Uyghur people yesterday.China immediately counterattacked and announced sanctions on four entities and 10 people in Europe.
Comprehensive Bloomberg and Reuters report, Chinese officials who have been sanctions include Chen Mingguo, deputy chairman of Xinjiang Autonomous Region, director of the Public Security Department, Wang Mingshan, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Political and Legal Committee, Wang Junzheng, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Xinjiang Autonomous Region, and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous RegionFormer party committee deputy secretary Zhu Hailun; the sanctioned entity is the Public Security Bureau of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. The scope of sanctions includes the prohibition of immigration and frozen their foreign assets.
This is the first time that the European Union has imposed sanctions on China since 1989.
The European Union said in the statement that the human rights acts they had targeted at the large -scale detention of Xinjiang Uighurs had arbitrarily detained in Xinjiang, and emphasized that sanctions marked the EU resolutely defending human rights.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs later announced that five European parliament members, a Dutch parliament member, a Belgian parliament, a Lithuanian parliament, German scholar Zheng Guoen, Swedish scholar Ye Biyang, the EU Council Political and Security Council, the Human Rights of the European ParliamentSub -committee, German Merkato China Research Center, and Danish Democratic Alliance Foundation imposed sanctions.
Relevant personnel and their families have been banned from entering mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, and their affiliated companies and institutions have also been restricted to communicate with China.
A spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a document on the official website to criticize the EU "based on lies and false information", and imposed unilateral sanctions on the pretext of Xinjiang human rights issues, and pointed out that the European party "reversed black and white", rudely interfered in China's internal affairs and violated international law.
A spokesman also pointed out that those who were sanctioned by Chinese sanctions and entities, "seriously damage Chinese sovereignty and interests, maliciously spread lies and false information."
The spokesman also warns that the European side will not be on their own with "human rights teachers", and do not play the dual standards of hypocritical, otherwise China will make "further resolute reactions."
According to Bloomberg, the EU's sanctions may not have great role, and they say that the United States impose sanctions on a number of Chinese Communist Party officials including two members of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, but these measures have not affected the Chinese economy or changed Chinaway of doing.
Australian Congress Movement to debate Consecrating China's "systematic sexual assault" human rights
On the other hand, the Australian Parliament debated a motion for the human rights condemning China's "systematic sexual assault" human right yesterday.
This motion was proposed by the ruling liberal member Andrews and was supported by all members of all major political parties.
Andrews said that the Dutch and Canadian parliament, coupled with the British House of Representatives, as well as the former US and current Secretary of State Pompeo and Brinken, condemned them in some reasons, including Xinjiang's large -scale detention camps and Xinjiang Uighurs were forced to be forced to be forced to be forcedlabor.
The Chinese Embassy in Australia condemned some members of the Australian parliament on "ridiculous and ridiculous remarks" on Xinjiang's topic, and said that "they accused them based on false information and lies."" ".