Report : US Set To Blacklist More Chinese Firms Over Alleged Human Rights Abuses

 The US movement will comply with its statement remaining month including 5 Chinese companies to the blacklist over allegations of compelled hard work in China's Xinjiang.

Washington: The Biden management is ready as early as Friday to feature greater than 10 Chinese agencies to its financial blacklist over alleged human rights abuses and high-tech surveillance in Xinjiang,  reassets informed Reuters.

The US Commerce Department movement will comply with its statement remaining month including 5 different agencies and different Chinese entities to the blacklist over allegations of compelled hard work withinside the some distance western place of China.

The additions to Commerce Department's Entity List are a part of the Biden management's efforts to maintain China chargeable for human rights violations, the reassets stated.

China dismisses accusations of genocide and compelled hard work in Xinjiang and says its rules are vital to stamp out separatists and spiritual extremists who plotted assaults and stirred up anxiety among generally Muslim ethnic Uyghurs and Han, China's biggest ethnic group.

"The Chinese facet will take all vital measures to guard the valid rights and pursuits of Chinese agencies and rejects U.S. tries to intervene in China's inner affairs," stated overseas ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin on Friday.

One of the reassets for the financial blacklist additions stated the Commerce Department plans to feature 14 Chinese agencies to the Entity List over pronounced abuses in Xinjiang.

The identification of the agencies being delivered turned into now no longer straight away known. Some agencies from different international locations can also be delivered to the branch's blacklist as quickly as Friday.

The White House declined to comment, whilst the Commerce Department did now no longer straight away reply to a request for comment.

RIGHTS ABUSES

The modern movement indicates President Joe Biden objectives to press China over what the management says are worsening human rights abuses in opposition to the Uyghur populace in Xinjiang.

Generally, entity-indexed agencies are required to use for licenses from the Commerce Department and face difficult scrutiny once they are seeking for permission to get hold of objects from U.S. suppliers.

Last month, the Commerce Department stated it turned into including the 5 Chinese entities "for accepting or utilising compelled hard work withinside the implementation of the People's Republic of China's marketing campaign of repression in opposition to Muslim minority organizations withinside the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region."

The branch stated the movement in June centered the capacity of the 5 entities, such as Chinese-primarily based totally sun panel fabric organization Hoshine Silicon Industry Co, "to get admission to commodities, software, and era ... and is a part of a U.S. Government-huge attempt to take sturdy movement in opposition to China's ongoing marketing campaign of repression in opposition to Muslim minority organizations" in Xinjiang.

This isn't the primary time the U.S. authorities has centered Chinese companies connected to allegations of high-tech surveillance pastime in Xinjiang.

In 2019, the Trump management delivered a number of China's pinnacle synthetic intelligence startups to its financial blacklist over its remedy of Muslim minorities.

The Commerce Department below Trump centered 20 Chinese public protection bureaus and 8 agencies such as video surveillance organization Hikvision, in addition to leaders in facial popularity era SenseTime Group Ltd and Megvii Technology Ltd.

The Commerce Department stated in 2019 the entities have been implicated in "high-era surveillance in opposition to Uighurs, Kazakhs, and different contributors of Muslim minority organizations.”