US imposes visa restrictions on certain employees of Chinese firms including Huawei

The United States on Wednesday announced to impose visa restrictions on certain employees of Chinese Technology companies that allegedly abuse human rights.

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Washington: The United States on Wednesday (July 15) announced to impose visa restrictions on certain employees of Chinese Technology companies that allegedly abuse human rights. Among these technology firms include Chinese company Huawei.

"The State Department will impose visa restrictions on certain employees of the Chinese technology companies that provide material support to regimes engaging in human rights violations and abuses globally," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a news conference. 

According to the official statement, the United States of America has long been a beacon of hope for the world’s most oppressed peoples, and a voice for those who have been silenced. We have been especially vocal about the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses, which rank among the worst in the world."

"Under Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, an alien is inadmissible to the United States if the Secretary of State has reason to believe the alien’s entry “would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States,” the statement said.

The companies impacted by today’s US 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, it said.

"Telecommunications companies around the world should consider themselves on notice: If they are doing business with Huawei, they are doing business with human rights abusers," the statement added.