Biden signs Xinjiang forced-labour bill into law


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US President Joe Biden signed into law on Thursday a measure that will effectively ban all imports from China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, a move likely to have significant ramifications for US-China relation s and global supply chains alike. In a brief statement, Biden thanked Congressional leaders and the bill’s authors for their “leadership” on the overwhelmingly bipartisan legislation, but he did not host a signing ceremony as presidents sometimes do with high-profile bills. Enacting the bill signalled the Biden administration’s commitment to “combating forced labour, including in the context of the ongoing genocide in Xinjiang ”, said US Secretary...