US imposes visa restrictions on certain employees of Chinese firms including Huawei

Washington: The United States on Wednesday (July 15) introduced to impose visa restrictions on sure staff of Chinese Technology corporations that allegedly abuse human rights. Among these expertise companies embrace Chinese firm Huawei.

“The State Department will impose visa restrictions on certain employees of the Chinese technology companies that provide material support to regimes engaging in human rights violations and abuses globally,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo informed a information convention. 

According to the official assertion, the United States of America has lengthy been a beacon of hope for the world’s most oppressed peoples, and a voice for many who have been silenced. We have been particularly vocal in regards to the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses, which rank among the many worst on the planet.”

“Under Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, an alien is inadmissible to the United States if the Secretary of State has cause to consider the alien’s entry “would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States,” the assertion mentioned.

The corporations impacted by right now’s US motion embrace Huawei, an arm of the CCP’s surveillance state that censors political dissidents and allows mass internment camps in Xinjiang and the indentured servitude of its inhabitants shipped throughout China. 

Certain Huawei staff present materials help to the CCP regime that commits human rights abuses, it mentioned.

“Telecommunications companies around the world should consider themselves on notice: If they are doing business with Huawei, they are doing business with human rights abusers,” the assertion added.