Amid growing tensions with Beijing, UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab accused Chinese officials of committing “gross, egregious” abuses in the northwestern Xinjiang province against the Uighurs. “If the UK goes that far to impose sanctions on any individuals in China, China will certainly make a resolute response to it,” he told BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show. They sanctioned Chinese officials, we sanctioned their senators, their officials. “It is clear that there are gross, egregious human rights abuses going on. Mr Liu rejected the allegations of widespread abuses against the mainly-Muslim Uighur people, accusing “so-called Western intelligence” of making repeated “false allegations” against China.

Source: The Irish Times July 19, 2020 13:18 UTC