U.S. threatens to impose travel bans on employees of Huawei, other Chinese companies for rights abuses

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Huawei employees found to be providing 'material support to regimes engaging in human rights violations and abuses globally' would be hit with sanctions

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department, in Washington, on July 15, 2020.The Trump administration said Wednesday it will impose travel bans on employees of the Chinese technology giant Huawei and other Chinese companies the U.S. determines are assisting authoritarian governments in cracking down on human rights, including in China’s western Xinjiang province.

Pompeo said Huawei employees found to be providing “material support to regimes engaging in human rights violations and abuses globally” would be hit with sanctions.“Companies impacted by today’s action include Huawei, an arm of the CCP’s surveillance state that censors political dissidents and enables mass internment camps in Xinjiang and the indentured servitude of its population shipped all over China,” he said.

It is not clear how many employees would be affected. Huawei says on its website that it has more than 194,000 employees in more than 170 countries and regions.

 

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thought all flights were banned from China months ago. Oh right, that latest a very short while.

Warmongering US needs to feed its military complex.

They have balls. Unlike Turdeau

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