Foreign secretary responds to China sanctions on MPs
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Foreign secretary responds to China sanctions on MPs
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the sanctions imposed by China in retaliation to those by the UK would not stop Britain from speaking out about the "industrial-scale human rights abuses taking place in Xinjiang".
China hit British institutions and MPs, including senior Tories Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Tom Tugendhat, with sanctions in response to similar moves by the UK over the treatment of the Uighur people.
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US and China , Launch Efforts to Combat , Fentanyl Crisis.
On January 30, officials from the United States
and China met to discuss a joint effort to take action
on stemming the flow of fentanyl into the U.S.
'TIME' reports that the meeting comes as a sign
of cooperation between the two global powers
to manage the ongoing fentanyl crisis.
The new counternarcotics working group met for
their first two-day meeting, focusing on ingredients
for the synthetic opioid that are manufactured in China.
In November of 2023, Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed
to resume cooperation on combating drug trafficking in a
meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in San Francisco.
In November of 2023, Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed
to resume cooperation on combating drug trafficking in a
meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in San Francisco.
The U.S. is looking for China to increase efforts
to curb the export of chemicals that are processed
into fentanyl before being smuggled into the U.S.
'TIME' reports that synthetic opioids like
fentanyl have emerged as the deadliest
killers in the ongoing U.S. drug crisis.
According to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, over 100,000 deaths
were linked to drug overdoses in 2022.
Over two-thirds of those overdoses were linked
with fentanyl or other similar synthetic opioids.
In exchange for cooperation on combating the flow of
fentanyl, the U.S. agreed to lift sanctions imposed on
China in 2020 over human rights violations against Uyghurs.
In exchange for cooperation on combating the flow of
fentanyl, the U.S. agreed to lift sanctions imposed on
China in 2020 over human rights violations against Uyghurs.
According to State Department spokesperson
Matthew Miller, lifting the sanctions was
âan appropriate step to takeâ given what China was
willing to do on the trafficking of fentanyl precursors
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The Foreign Secretary has said the UK stands firmly with MPs and other British citizens who have been slapped with Chinese sanctions for speaking out against human rights violations against the Uighur..
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Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Dominic Raab addresses the House of Commons on plans to impose sanctions against four senior Chinese officials and the Xinjiang Production and..
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Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has announced sanctions on a small group of senior Chinese officials involved in the mass internment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province.
Addressing MPs in the..