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Human Rights groups say That up to a million Uighurs and other Muslims are in prison in Xinjiang

The the Blacklist 28 Chinese organisations for their alleged involvement in Human Rights violations against the ethnic Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang province.

The organizations are now on the so-called "Entity List", which bars them from purchasing products from US companies without approval from Washington.

The 28 objectives of both government agencies and technology companies, specializing in equipment for monitoring.

China reacted angrily, closing the U.S. accusations as unfounded.

"There is no such thing as these so-called "Human Rights ", as claimed by the United States ," said foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang . "These allegations are Nothing More than a pretext for the United States to disrupt conscious of China's Internal Affairs . "

It is not the First Time That she's placed US, and Chinese groups, the prohibition of a trade.

In may, because of the security fears about its products.

A Commerce Department, which said submission, the organizations are "implicated in Human Rights violations".

rights groups say Beijing is difficult for the mostly Muslim Uighurs are persecuted in the internment camp. China calls these "vet centers" in the fight against extremism.

Who has the US targeted?

these 28 people are involved in "China's campaign of repression, mass arbitrary arrests, and high-Tech surveillance against the Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other members of the Muslim minority. "

Xinjiang province Public Security Bureau on The List , along with 19 other smaller authorities.

Hikvision , Dahua Technology and Megvii technology are among the eight commercial groups on The List , all of which specialized in facial recognition technology.

Hikvision is the largest surveillance equipment manufacturers in The World .

Hikvision specializes in surveillance equipment

The U.S. and China are currently in the middle of a trade war, and sent delegations to Washington for a conference on the tensions later This Week .

Targeting China's AI star

Karishma Vaswani, BBC's Asia Business correspondent

for This step of the United States , China's technology is without a doubt injured ambitions, at least in the short term.

The company targeted some of China's biggest tech stars in the Artificial Intelligence industry in China on its future.

But the processor chips used to train-KI-dominated algorithms currently used by American companies such as Intel and Nvidia.

Increasingly, though, US moving to limit American tech speed is available for Chinese companies in the request of China Inc, and their desire for self-sufficiency.

For example, after Huawei was placed on the US entity list, meant earlier this Year That companies like Google would need an export license from Washington before the sale to the Chinese company said it would begin with the development of own-use software to embed on their phones.

the Chinese Alternative to other US-based technology developed.

As the United States and China, the trade war turned increasingly into a struggle for the technology, the consumers have the right to choose between the all-Chinese and American products.

What is The Situation in Xinjiang is?

China has a massive security operation in the province of Xinjiang, in the far West, in the last few years.

Human Rights organisations and the UN say That China has rounded up and detained, to refrain from More Than a million Uighurs and other Ethnic Minorities , which are stored in large internment, where they are forced on you, the Islam, to speak only in Mandarin Chinese and to learn obedience to The Communist government.

China says these people are at the "vocational training centres", the them jobs and help them integrate into the Chinese society, in the name of preventing terrorism.

vocal were increasingly denunciations from the U.S. and other countries about China's actions in Xinjiang.

last week in a press conference in the Vatican.

And In July , China criticized the treatment of the Uighurs and other Muslims.

Who are the Uighurs?

Uighurs are ethnically Turkic Muslims. They Make Up about 45% of Xinjiang region's population; 40% are Han Chinese .

China control in 1949, produced after crushing short-lived state of East Turkestan.

Since then, it has mass immigration of Han Chinese Uighurs fear erosion of their culture.

Xinjiang is officially an Autonomous region within China like Tibet in the South.

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