FILE - President Joe Biden listens arsenic helium meets virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping from the Roosevelt Room of the White House successful Washington,Nov. 15, 2021. The Biden medication announced connected Thursday that it is levying caller sanctions against respective Chinese biotech and surveillance companies operating retired of Xinjiang province, casting different changeable astatine Beijing implicit quality rights abuses against Uyghurs successful occidental China. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) (Susan Walsh, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

BEIJING – China connected Friday said it would instrumentality each indispensable measures to safeguard its institutions and enterprises aft the U.S. Senate passed a caller instrumentality barring imports from the Xinjiang portion unless businesses tin beryllium they were produced without forced labor.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said the measurement approved Thursday “indicates that the U.S. has nary scruples astir smearing China by each means."

“The applicable actions earnestly undermine the principles of marketplace system and planetary economical and commercialized rules, and earnestly harm the interests of Chinese institutions and enterprises," Wang told reporters astatine a regular briefing.

“China powerfully deplores and rejects that and urges the U.S. to instantly close its mistake. China volition instrumentality each indispensable measures to resolutely safeguard the morganatic rights and interests of Chinese institutions and enterprises," Wang said.

The instrumentality is the latest successful a bid intensifying U.S. penalties implicit China’s alleged systemic and wide maltreatment of taste and spiritual minorities successful the occidental region, particularly Xinjiang’s predominantly Muslim Uyghurs.

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President Joe Biden, who is expected to motion the instrumentality aft overcoming archetypal hesitation from the White House and what supporters said was absorption from corporations, besides announced caller sanctions Thursday. Those people respective Chinese biotech and surveillance companies, a starring drone shaper and authorities entities for their actions successful Xinjiang.

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