{"id":30271,"date":"2021-03-28T12:13:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T03:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/28\/china-xinjiang-sanctions-us-canada-hit-back"},"modified":"2021-03-28T12:13:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T03:13:27","slug":"us-and-canada-hit-back-at-chinas-baseless-sanctions-as-xinjiang-row-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30271","title":{"rendered":"US and Canada hit back at China&#8217;s &#8216;baseless&#8217; sanctions as Xinjiang row deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington says Beijing\u2019s tit-for-tat sanctions will only focus attention on its \u2018genocide\u2019 against Uighurs<\/p>\n<p>The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has warned that China\u2019s tit-for-tat sanctions against two Americans in the growing dispute over Beijing\u2019s treatment of Uighurs were \u201cbaseless\u201d and would only shine a harsh spotlight on the \u201cgenocide\u201d in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeijing\u2019s attempts to intimidate and silence those speaking out for human rights and fundamental freedoms only contribute to the growing international scrutiny of the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang,\u201d Blinken said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/28\/china-xinjiang-sanctions-us-canada-hit-back\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington says Beijing\u2019s tit-for-tat sanctions will only focus attention on its \u2018genocide\u2019 against UighursThe US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has warned that China\u2019s tit-for-tat sanctions against two Americans in the growing dispute over Beijin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[246,2003,244,50,712,67,45,47,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-antony-blinken","category-canada","category-china","category-justin-trudeau","category-uighurs","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30271","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30272,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30271\/revisions\/30272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}