Lawmakers ask Trump to sanction Chinese officials

Published August 29, 2018 4:58pm ET



President Trump should impose sanctions on senior Chinese officials, according a bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., have a list of names for the administration to sanction for human rights abuses in Xinjiang, a province populated by a religious and ethnic minority that faces some of the most aggressive and high-tech repression in the world. Re-education camps and surveillance characterize an attempt to consolidate cultural homogeneity in a region where a lack of control could interfere with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s economic plans for Central Asia.

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