US hits China with new trade curbs and sanctions over forced Uyghur labour

US lawmakers have ramped up pressure on China in a bid to censure the country's treatment of the Muslim minority

The United States has unleashed a volley of actions to censure China's treatment of the Uyghur minority, with lawmakers voting to curb trade and issuing new sanctions on Beijing.

The United States has been ramping up pressure on China amid a crop of disputes, with president Joe Biden's administration a day earlier targeting producers of painkillers that have contributed to America's addiction crisis.