Senators back law barring imports from Chinese region linked to forced labour

President Joe Biden is said to back the Bill (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Senators have given final congressional approval to a Bill barring imports from China’s Xinjiang region unless businesses can prove they were produced without forced labour.

The measure is the latest in a series intensifying US penalties over China’s alleged abuses of ethnic and religious minorities in the western region, especially Xinjiang’s millions of predominantly Muslim Uighurs.