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US Imposes Visa Restrictions on Chinese Tech Companies Employees

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   STATE DEPARTMENT - The United States is imposing visa restrictions on
   certain employees of Chinese technology companies, including Huawei,
   for providing "material support to regimes engaging in human rights
   violations and abuses globally."

   Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said telecommunications
   companies around the world should also "consider themselves on notice"
   that if they do business with Huawei, "they are doing business with
   human rights abusers."

   The announcement is seen as the latest move to punish Chinese Communist
   Party's alleged human rights abuses against China's minority Muslim
   population.

   "Companies impacted by today's action include Huawei, an arm of the
   CCP's surveillance state that censors political dissidents and enables
   mass internment camps in Xinjiang and the indentured servitude of its
   population shipped all over China. Certain Huawei employees provide
   material support to the CCP regime that commits human rights abuses,"
   said Pompeo in a separate statement.

   The State Department did not provide specific names of employees of
   Chinese technology companies affected by the visa restrictions.

   The U.S. move also came a day after the British government announced it
   would ban Huawei from playing a role in the development of Britain's
   next generation 5G network. Washington says Huawei could provide the
   Chinese Communist Party a "back door" for spying, a claim that Huawei
   rejects.

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