2 Major Impacts of EU Sanctions on the Chinese Regime

A facility believed to be a so-called re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, north of Kashgar in China's Xinjiang region, on June 2, 2019. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images

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On March 22, the European Union announced that it would impose sanctions on Chinese officials, including one entity, over Beijing’s serious human rights violations in Xinjiang. The sanctions were the first significant measures since the EU arms embargo was imposed on China after the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre.