Beijing: On Dec 26, it emerged that China replaced Chen Quanguo, chief of Communist Party in the Xinjiang who supervised a security crackdown that targeted ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslims under the garb of fighting religious extremism. Chen was sanctioned by the United States last year. U.S. President Joe Biden, on Thursday, signed into law a ban on imports from Xinjiang speculating forced labor. The US move provoked a furious Chinese denunciation.
