They are also likely to inflame tensions between Brussels and Beijing. The EU had not sanctioned China since it imposed an arms embargo in 1989 following the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy crackdown. The arms embargo is still in place.
China is the EU’s second-largest trading partner after the United States and Beijing is both a big market and a major investor which has courted poorer and central European states.But the EU, which sees itself as a champion of human rights, is deeply worried about the fate of the Uyghurs. Britain, Canada and the United States have also expressed serious concerns.Activists and U.N. rights experts say at least 1 million Muslims are being detained in camps in the remote western region of Xinjiang.
Last week, China’s ambassador to the bloc, Zhang Ming, said that sanctions would not change Beijing’s policies, decrying the measures as confrontational and warning of retaliation.
It's amazing that they decided to use groundless accusation to support their reasoning of sanction But essentially it's just another round of smear campaign towards China and fostering blind hatred to Chinese domestically. History will remember this joke.
But JustinTrudeau and the Liberal Party keep their head in the sand. TrudeauMustGo TrudeauFailedMikes