The Biden administration issued not just one set of sanctions against Chinese companies and institutions, but three sets in the past two days. The first set was imposed two days ago, based on the claim that China is not stopping opioid precursor chemicals and fentanyl from reaching the U.S. Therefore, the Biden administration placed China’s leading anti-drug institutions, the Institution of Forensic Science of the Ministry of Public Security and the National Narcotics Laboratory, which had been cooperating with the U.S. in tracking down producers of these drugs, on the infamous U.S. “entity list.”
These were followed yesterday by sanctions on eight private Chinese defense and surveillance technology firms charged with facilitating the use of surveillance cameras and other measures very familiar to citizens of Western nations, but which in China must of necessity be being used to identify ethnic and religious minorities for persecution (yes, predominantly against Uyghurs and Tibetans).
