China’s recently-announced sanctions against two Canadian organizations, the “Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project” and “Canada-Tibet Committee,” are countermeasures. Unlike the West, China does not impose illegal unilateral sanctions. It only counters Western measures, usually undertaken aggressively in the name of human rights and democracy. Canada had marked International Human Rights Day on December 10 by imposing sanctions on eight Chinese officials for alleged involvement in human rights violations in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Xizang Autonomous Region without any factual basis.
