Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party said today that since the Biden administration in the United States has taken a clear critical stance on human rights in China, Japan should follow the same direction and express the same attitude toward China. The Japanese political circles are expected to enact a law in February to sanction those who violate human rights.
According to NHK, the new U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has emphasized that the Chinese government is committing genocide against the Uighurs, and the LDP Foreign Affairs Subcommittee will follow the U.S. policy direction and ask the government to The LDP Foreign Affairs Subcommittee will ask the government to conduct diplomatic activities focusing on human rights issues in accordance with the U.S. policy direction, and will work with opposition parties next month to formulate human rights-related laws and regulations and ban human rights offenders from entering Japanese territory.
Blinken told the Senate at his staffing hearing on 20 December that China is forcing Uighur men, women and young children into concentration camps and “re-educating” them to identify with the Communist Party’s ideology, echoing former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo‘s determination that Beijing is “He said he would take practical action within a month of taking office, such as ensuring that the U.S. does not import forced labor goods from Xinjiang or export technology or equipment that could be used by China to violate human rights, to prevent the U.S. from becoming an accomplice.
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