University governing boards should answer their students’ call and divest from Chinese companies complicit in genocide against Uyghurs, Keith Krach writes.
Sanctions
The US Congress has received a report on China’s horrific abuse of Uyghurs in their homeland, Bloomberg News reports.
Some of the largest U.S companies have already faced backlash from the recent law, signed by President Biden, that severely restricts imports made by Uyghur forced labour, Market Watch reports.
WASHINGTON, DC – On Thursday, December 23rd, U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law legislation that bans imports from Xinjiang, the Uyghur Autonomous in North-Eastern China (that Uyghurs prefer to call Uyghurstan / East Turkistan). It comes over concerns about forced labor, the White House reported. The bill received final congressional approval on December 16th.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is placing 15 individuals and 10 entities under Magnitsky sanctions for their connection to human rights abuses in several countries around the world, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announces. Those sanctioned include the former Xinjiang governor Shohrat Zakir and the current governor Erkin Tuniyaz.