Dear Mr. Secretary:
We write to follow up on our letter of August 28, 2018 requesting the Administration to take strong measures in response to egregious human rights abuses perpetrated by the Chinese Government in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). We received your response dated September 28, 2018, stating that the Department was looking into our request to impose sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act on those responsible for such abuses and controls on exports of technology that facilitates mass detentions and surveillance of ethnic minorities in the XUAR. More than four months later, it appears that the Administration has taken no meaningful action in response to the situation in the XUAR, and we write today with a renewed sense of urgency on this serious matter.