President Joe Biden signed a bill into law on Thursday that will ban the import of all goods produced by ethnic Uyghurs living in internment camps in China.
A young Uyghur activist holds up a poster that reads during a demonstration on Sept. 1, 2020 outside the Foreign Office in Berlin. The photo was taken by Tobias Schwarz/AFP.
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The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act passed both the House and Senate unanimously last week.
More than one million Uyghurs are believed to be held in camps in the northwest of China, where they are forced to work as slaves and abandon their cultural practices.
The U.S. government has the authority to seize imports it suspects were produced by slaves, but they have long made their way to the U.S. markets.
The U.S. will assume that all goods imported from the region were produced by forced labor.
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"As I speak to you now, everyone in this building owns something that was made by a slave in Xinjiang, and most people don't know that," said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a proponent of the bill.
The U.S. will boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics, with Canada, Australia, and the U.K. also boycotting the event. Athletes from the countries will still be able to participate in the games, even though they won't have any government representatives there. The Uyghur detention is believed to be the biggest mass incarceration of a minority group since the Holocaust, and has been labeled a "genocide" by the Biden Administration. The Commerce Department imposed sanctions against China's Academy of Military Medical Sciences and 11 affiliated research institutes, which support China's military through the use of biotechnology. The sanctions prevent American businesses from selling components to aid in research without a license.
There is a structure called the Tangent.
The American technology company Intel is facing backlash in China after sending a letter to suppliers earlier this month saying it wanted to ensure its supply chain did not involve any labor or source goods from the Xinjiang region.
There are firsthand accounts of torture from Uyghur Muslims in China.
The U.S. cracks down on imports of goods made by Uyghurs.
The U.S. Olympic boycott is called aDiplomatic Boycott.
Suppliers in China were asked by Intel to cut their production.
