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The United States imposed sanctions and visa restrictions Thursday on Chen Quanguo, the autonomous region of Xinjiang’s Communist Party Secretary and a member of China’s powerful Politburo, over human rights abuses of Uighur Muslims. The blacklist was imposed under the Global Magnitsky Act, which allows the U.S. government to sanction human rights offenders by freezing their assets, banning them from the U.S. and cutting off business ties, Reuters reported . Chen is the highest ranking Chinese official to have been targeted by American sanctions so far. In a press statement Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sharply criticized the Chinese...
