The European Council at last decided to sanction China for human rights violations in the autonomous region of Xinjiang.
They are insufficient.
They only target the executers of Chinese policy: four low-ranking local officials, one even retired, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
The masterminds of the mass-imprisonment of Uighurs in Beijing, the large international companies that are indirectly benefitting from the forced labour stay out of sight.
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Jonathan Holslag teaches international politics at the Free University of Brussels.