The United States has imposed visa restrictions on Chinese officers for the detention or abuse of Muslim minorities, angering Beijing.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned coercive household planning towards Uighur Muslims by the Chinese authorities and stated that steady repression of minorities in Xinjiang area displays that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has no respect for human life and primary human dignity.
In retaliation, China imposed visa restrictions on some prime US officers and politicians in response to America’s transfer to sanction a number of Chinese officers for alleged human rights abuses concentrating on ethnic minority teams within the Muslim-majority Xinjiang province.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying instructed the media that the behaviour of the US officers and politicians, and visa ban on some Chinese officers from Uyghur Muslim dominated Xinjiang province “severely damaged China-US relations,” and needs to be condemned.