{"id":11783,"date":"2019-12-04T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T02:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/04\/us-house-approves-uighur-act-calling-for-sanctions-on-chinas-politburo-xinjiang-muslim"},"modified":"2019-12-04T19:33:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T10:33:34","slug":"us-house-approves-uighur-act-calling-for-sanctions-on-chinas-senior-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11783","title":{"rendered":"US House approves Uighur Act calling for sanctions on China&#8217;s senior officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation in response to crackdown in Xinjiang prompts angry response from Beijing<\/p>\n<p>The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would require the Trump administration to toughen its response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/mar\/28\/mike-pompeo-urges-china-to-immediately-halt-detention-of-uighurs-in-xinjiang\">China\u2019s crackdown on its Muslim minority in Xinjiang<\/a>, drawing swift condemnation from Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The Uighur Act of 2019 is a stronger version of a bill that angered Beijing when it passed the Senate in September. It calls on the president, Donald Trump, to impose sanctions for the first time on a member of China\u2019s powerful politburo even as he seeks a trade deal with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/04\/us-house-approves-uighur-act-calling-for-sanctions-on-chinas-politburo-xinjiang-muslim\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation in response to crackdown in Xinjiang prompts angry response from BeijingThe US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would require the Trump administration to toughen its response to China\u2019s crackdown on its Musli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,67,47,631,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-uighurs","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11791,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11783\/revisions\/11791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}