Chinese scholars say the measures have led to job losses and shrinking profits for some firms, but the region shows resilience
The findings, presented at an academic seminar in Hong Kong last month, offered one of the first aggregated assessments of the impacts of US sanctions imposed on Chinese companies over alleged human rights abuses in the far western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Beijing has denied those accusations and condemned the sanctions as “intending to create unemployment” in the region.
The sanctions, first imposed in 2019 during US President Donald Trump’s first term, have targeted a growing list of companies based in Xinjiang. That list continued to grow under the administration of former US president Joe Biden, especially after the US Uygur Forced Labour Protection Act came into effect in 2021.
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