EU agrees on sanctions against China
For the first time since 1989, the EU is launching sanctions against China. Entry bans are to be issued and accounts to be frozen. This affects government officials and two institutions.
The European Union has Diplomats back sanctions against first time in three decades, China decided. It is about entry bans and the freezing of assets, two EU diplomats told Reuters on Wednesday. Four Chinese government representatives and one Chinese institution are affected. The background is human rights violations against the Muslim Uyghur minority in China. Formally, the sanctions would be decided by the EU foreign ministers next Monday.
These are the first EU sanctions against China since an arms embargo was imposed in 1989. At that time, the Chinese government put down a student-led reform movement in Tiananmen Square in Beijing using tanks. According to human rights activists, thousands of people could have been killed at the time.
Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas had already announced on Monday that he was pushing for sanctions to be imposed on China for dealing with the Muslim Uyghur minority.
He said, the EU has the ability to punish human rights violations and we want to use this instrument, of course.
Human rights groups also accuse China of suppressing the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region. The Beijing government rejects the allegations
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