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Trump Bans Chinese Companies For Abuse Against Muslims

John Bickley
Trump Bans Chinese Companies For Abuse Against Muslims
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The Trump administration, which has been branded as “anti-Muslim” by critics from the first few days of Donald Trump’s presidency, took a significant step this week in defense of Muslims in China.

On Monday, the U.S. Commerce Department announced that it has imposed a trade blacklist on 20 Chinese public security bureaus and eight surveillance-related tech companies for their role in “human rights violations and abuses in the implementation of China’s campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, and high-technology surveillance against Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups.”

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