TOKYO, March 24, 2021—No matter how aggressively China harasses Japan, the Japanese government won’t – more like can’t – join the U.S.-EU sanctions against China over China’s human rights abuses against Xinjiang’s Uighur population.
That was confirmed by chief cabinet spokesman Katsunobu Kato at a regular March 23 news conference. ‘Japanense (foreign exchange) law doesn’t have provisions to conduct sanctions (against China) for direct or implicit reasons based on human rights (violations) alone,’ he said, in reply to questions as to whether Tokyo would join the sactions by the United States, the European Union, Canada and Australia.
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