Britain joined the US, EU and Canada in slapping sanctions on senior Chinese officials today over Beijing's 'highly disturbing programme of repression' against Uighur Muslims. The Foreign Secretary lashed out at China in the Commons, accusing it of 'egregious, industrial-scale human rights abuse' and of carrying out 'one of the worst human rights crises of our time'. Human rights abuses against the Uighur China has faced repeated accusations of human rights abuses against the Uighur people in Xinjiang province. Beijing has rejected the accusations of human rights abuses. 'I mean, a lot of them would just go out of business, that they are so dependent on Chinese students, Chinese research, and so on and so forth.

Source: Daily Mail March 22, 2021 10:46 UTC