Bill to boost US businesses includes new protections for China’s Uyghurs

January 26, 2022

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday released a wide-ranging bill intended to support the U.S. tech industry while also confronting China on human rights abuses, including the persecution of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the country’s Xinjiang region.

The legislation, which is titled the America COMPETES Act, would spend at least $52 billion to increase domestic production of semiconductors and address vulnerabilities in the U.S. supply chain, which some economists blame in part for rising inflation.

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