- The Chinese government denounced a U.S. law that restricts imports from Xinjiang as a violation of international law and dismissed complaints of abuses against Muslim minorities.
- President Joe Biden had signed the measure. It prohibits U.S. businesses from importing goods from Xinjiang unless they can be proven not to have been made by forced labour.
- Foreign governments and researchers say more than 1 million Uyghurs and other minorities have been confined in camps in Xinjiang in China’s northwest. Chinese officials are accused of using forced abortions, forced labour and mass indoctrination.
