US imposed sanctions on two senior Chinese officials in Tibet on Friday . The sanctions include alleged torture and murder of prisoners, as well as forced sterilization .
Washington: Despite a gradual improvement in tensions between the US and China, the US imposed sanctions on two senior Chinese officials in Tibet on Friday, including alleged torture and murder of prisoners, as well as forced sterilization, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.Zhang has committed to extreme human rights abuses in Tibet, including extrajudicial killings, physical assault, arbitrary arrests, and mass detention, according to a statement from the Treasury Department.Following a botched rebellion in 1959, the Dalai Lama, the region's spiritual leader, fled to India, where the US has placed more emphasis on Xinjiang to Tibet's north, where it claims that China is carrying out a genocide against Uyghurs and other, mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking populations.The US also fired at North Korea's border guards on Friday, citing their shoot-on-sight orders against citizens fle