The Chinese Foreign Ministry said the US would pay the price on the Uyghur bill, but did not specify what Beijing would take.

"All wrong actions and words pay a fair price," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a press conference in Beijing today. The statement came after the US House of Representatives passed the Uighurs Interventions and Global Unified Humanitarian Response (Uyghur Bill) 2019.

The bill allows the US government to identify and punish officials deemed responsible for imprisoning about one million Uighurs and Muslim minority groups in political re-education camps in Xinjiang. The bill will also strengthen tightening controls on US technology exports to China, including equipment that can be used to "crack down on privacy, freedom of movement and other basic human rights." .

Asked how the bill passed by the US House of Representatives affects the negotiation of the first-stage trade agreement between the world's two largest economies, Hoa said that "this could not help but affect. US-China relations as well as the cooperation between the two countries in important fields ".

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has previously criticized the bill, saying the move by the US House of Representatives "violently attacked China's Xinjiang policy." She did not specify what measures China would take, but emphasized that "the price will eventually come".

Under the new bill passed by the US House of Representatives, within four months of the law being enacted, the US President must submit to Congress a list of Chinese officials deemed responsible or complicit in violation. human rights in Xinjiang. These officials will have their properties confiscated in the US and banned from entering the United States. Xinjiang Party Secretary Chen Xinqiang will be one of the punished officials.

The Chinese government has been accused of bringing about one million Uighurs and Muslim minority members into concentration camps since the beginning of 2017. Beijing asserts these facilities are "vocational training centers." "and they are legally responding to threats from religious extremism.

The United States and Western countries do not accept this statement. The US government recently announced a series of sanctions on Chinese officials, government organizations and private companies that "are responsible for or facilitate human rights violations in Xinjiang".