The State Department has now designated 12 “Countries of Particular Concern” and placed four more on a “Special Watch List” under the International Religious Freedom Act “for having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.”
Republican lawmakers wrote a letter to the Biden Administration detailing how funding for green technology contributes to the ongoing human rights abuses in China.
The United States on Friday designated China, Iran, and Russia, among others, as countries of particular concern under the Religious Freedom Act over severe violations, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
The UK’s government departments has been told to stop installing surveillance cameras made by Chinese companies and advised to replace existing ones, a Cabinet minister said on Thursday.
President Joe Biden suggested China and America should collaborate to tackle "climate change" but did not mention Uyghur human rights abuses or COVID-19 origins with dictator Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Indonesia Monday.
White House climate envoy John Kerry announced Wednesday that the Biden administration and environmental nonprofits are creating a financial framework that will allow corporations to offset their emissions by buying “carbon credits” from developing nations.