{"id":21216,"date":"2020-08-01T03:10:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/31\/us-sanctions-china-xinjiang-uighurs"},"modified":"2020-08-01T03:10:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:10:18","slug":"us-imposes-sanctions-on-chinese-state-within-a-state-linked-to-xinjiang-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21216","title":{"rendered":"US imposes sanctions on Chinese &#8216;state-within-a-state&#8217; linked to Xinjiang abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps assets frozen<\/li>\n<li>Pompeo: China\u2019s treatment of minorities is \u2018stain of the century\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United States has imposed sanctions on a major economic and paramilitary organization with vast interests in China\u2019s north-western region of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/xinjiang\">Xinjiang<\/a>, accusing it of facilitating widespread abuses against Uighur Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2014\/10\/08\/chinas-vast-strange-and-powerful-farming-militia-turns-60\/\">Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps<\/a> has been seen as a state within a state, running its own towns, universities and media geared overwhelmingly toward China\u2019s Han ethnic majority.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/31\/us-sanctions-china-xinjiang-uighurs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps assets frozenPompeo: China\u2019s treatment of minorities is \u2018stain of the century\u2019The United States has imposed sanctions on a major economic and paramilitary organization with vast interests in China\u2019s north-west&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1256,"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":[41,50,472,67,45,47,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-mike-pompeo","category-uighurs","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/21216","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\/1256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21217,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21216\/revisions\/21217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}