{"id":20350,"date":"2020-07-10T11:32:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T02:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/10\/us-imposes-sanctions-on-senior-chinese-officials-over-uighur-abuses"},"modified":"2020-07-10T17:48:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T08:48:31","slug":"us-imposes-sanctions-on-senior-chinese-officials-over-uighur-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20350","title":{"rendered":"US imposes sanctions on senior Chinese officials over Uighur abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Mike Pompeo says US \u2018will not stand idly by\u2019 over abuses of ethnic minorities in China\u2019s western region of Xinjiang<\/p>\n<p>The United States has imposed sanctions on three senior officials of the Chinese Communist party, including a member of the ruling politburo, for alleged human rights abuses targeting ethnic and religious minorities in the western part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of state Mike Pompeo said in a statement: \u201cThe United States will not stand idly by as the Chinese Communist party carries out human rights abuses targeting Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs and members of other minority groups in Xinjiang, to include forced labor, arbitrary mass detention, and forced population control, and attempts to erase their culture and Muslim faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/10\/us-imposes-sanctions-on-senior-chinese-officials-over-uighur-abuses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Mike Pompeo says US \u2018will not stand idly by\u2019 over abuses of ethnic minorities in China\u2019s western region of XinjiangThe United States has imposed sanctions on three senior officials of the Chinese Communist party, including a member of the ruling polit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,50,447,67,47,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-islam","category-uighurs","category-us-news","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\/20350","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20367,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20350\/revisions\/20367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}