The U.S. Senate on Dec. 16 passed legislation to ban all imports from China’s Xinjiang region, where Beijing has held more than a million Uyghurs in internment camps, over forced labor concerns. It is now headed to the White House, where President Joe Biden has said he will sign it into law. The move complements a series of actions by the Biden administration aimed at holding the Chinese regime accountable over its repression in Xinjiang, which Washington has labeled as genocide. The Senate passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act by unanimous consent, two days after the House passed the bill with a unanimous voice vote. The measure rushed through Congress this week after lawmakers agreed on a compromise that eliminated differences between bills introduced in the House and Senate. Republicans and Democrats in the two chambers have been arguing over the Uyghur legislation for months. The dispute complicated passage of the annual National Defense …
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