Why Xinjiang Is Emerging as the Epicenter of the U.S. Cold War on China
On March 22, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken authorized sanctions against Wang Junzheng, the secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), and Chen Mingguo, director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau (XPSB). These sanctions, Blinken said, have been put in place against Wang Junzheng and Chen Mingguo because they are accused of being party to “genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.” The U.S. Treasury Department followed suit with its own sanctions.
By Vijay Prashad and Jie Xiong
National
April 6, 2021
SUKKUR: Jamaat-e-Islami chief, Siraj-ul-Haq, on Monday, after condoling with Hafeezullah Memon over demise of his mother at Therhi, said the vested interests created a rift between PPP and PML-N that ultimately damaged the PDM.
Talking on the occasion, the JI chief said the allied parties in the PDM did not want to leave power, adding that the PDM was formed only to rescue their vested interests, not to rescue the people or to resolve their issues. He opined that the federal government should carry all the development work on the islands of Sindh through the provincial government as per constitutional procedures. He said Sindh’s islands are the assets of the province and the Federation does not have constitutional or administrative right to control them through any executive order or ordinance. Siraj said it was ridiculous to listen to the PM’s response on high inflation, when he replied that he himself was monitoring the inflation. However, when he too