Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) brought up the regime’s suppression in Xinjiang and the transnational repression targeting the global Chinese diaspora.

"Topics like Taiwan, Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, human rights, economic turbulence, and social unrest are immediate tripwires," Alex said. Newspapers sold at a newsstand in Hong Kong, in a file photo.

The CCP has imposed similar Mandarin-only education policies in Xinjiang and Tibet—regions with large non-Han populations—drawing condemnation from international critics, including lawmakers and human rights groups.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) following a law passed last year that seeks to block Chinese solar imports made using forced labor of the Uyghur community in the Xinjiang region.

Human rights concerns in the Xinjiang region also pushed Congress to pass the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in 2022, which prohibited importing goods produced wholly or in part with Uyghur forced labor, according to the report.

This is mainly because most manufacturing takes place in China, particularly in the provinces of Xinjiang and Jiangsu, where coal dominates local energy supply. Aldgra Fredly Rahman and Evgenia Filimianova contributed to this report.

Sheri Meyerhoffer, the ombudsperson for responsible enterprise, is looking into whether the denim company known for Levi's jeans has supply relationships with Chinese companies that source materials from Uyghur people forced to work in the Xinjiang region

sanctions on eight Chinese senior officials accused of “grave human rights violations,” saying the move was in response to the Chinese regime-led repression of ethnic and religious minorities, including the Muslim Uyghurs from the Chinese region of Xinjiang

Dunn drew a direct connection between China’s disregard for human life and its broader human rights record—from persecution of religious minorities to mass internment in Xinjiang.

Sunrise over the Tazhong Oilfield in the Taklamakan Desert, in China's Xinjiang Province. (Frederic J.

Although the Xinjiang corps ceased poppy cultivation, their involvement with ephedrine suggests a continued, albeit transformed, engagement in narcotic production.

More Targets There are also indications that as the CCP has expanded its transplant industry, it has targeted more groups for forced organ harvesting, such as the Uyghur population in Xinjiang, China.

“For example, the Xinjiang bill took nearly a year to pass through the Senate, while the Tibet bill faced prolonged negotiations.

Young Kim (R-Calif.) said family members of Radio Free Asia journalists reporting on the Uyghur Muslim genocide in China’s Xinjiang region were being actively persecuted and imprisoned by the Chinese Communist Party.

The latest House version by Salazar includes specific provisions requiring the educational materials to outline the abuses by the Chinese communist regime, including the ongoing repression of Uyghur Muslims in China's far west region of Xinjiang, the

After the Treasury Department imposed human rights sanctions on Xinjiang and Hong Kong officials in 2020, Rubio was targeted by Beijing twice with retaliatory sanctions.

Beginning at about 6:50 a.m. local time, the waves of missiles were fired in Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang, about 1,200 miles from Taiwan.

Since then, evidence suggests the regime has expanded its targets to other groups it suppresses, like the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Texas Sen.

Mamut, the former editor-in-chief of the Uyghur-language magazine Xinjiang Civilization, is serving a 15-year sentence on charges of committing "political crimes."

In April, Ma Xingrui—another Politburo member and former Xinjiang Party secretary—was targeted on similar allegations.

More than a million Uyghurs are believed to be detained in camps throughout Xinjiang.

In 2020, the department also added two BGI subsidiaries—Xinjiang Silk Road BGI and Beijing Liuhe BGI—to its entity list.

The letter also mentioned China’s human rights violations in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, as well as its abuses against Chinese rights defenders.

Commerce Department placed Daqo New Energy on its entity list in June 2021 over forced labor allegations in China's far-western region of Xinjiang.

This methodology had been developed and used to study the “growth and decline” of detention facilities in Xinjiang.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is known to persecute Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang area, where the vast majority of China's cotton is produced.

The NGO revealed increasing investments by Western governments, corporations, and investors in China despite the Chinese Communist Party's ongoing abuse of the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang Province.

If enacted, the bill will require public companies to disclose any links that their products may have to forced labor in Xinjiang. In April, Sen.

Investigation Meyerhoffer said staff will not be sent in person to the Xinjiang region to collect facts, given “human rights concerns in the region.”

The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) persecution of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, where about 90 percent of the country's cotton comes from, is known to involve forced labor.