White House Holds Uyghur Forced-Labor Bills at Arm’s Length | RealClearPolitics
Some of those steps from Biden s first year in office include sanctions and visa restrictions against Chinese Communist Party officials involved in the mistreatment; export and import controls to keep foreign goods made with forced labor out of domestic markets; and a thinly veiled reference to China in a statement released after the G7 Summit in October.
Those concrete measures do not, however, include support for twin bills in Congress dubbed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which would specifically prohibit imports from China s Xinjiang region, where an estimated 12 million Uyghurs live, many of them in labor camps. The House version of the legislation passed last year by a vote of 406-3. The Senate version sailed through by unanimous consent this summer.