A major EU-China investment deal has been thrown into question after China resorted to aggressive diplomacy in response to EU sanctions. The European Union, the United States, the UK, and Canada on March 22 unveiled coordinated sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) oppressive policy in China’s far-western Xinjiang region. The EU sanctioned four Chinese officials under the new EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, which went into effect in December last year. The CCP is committing genocide against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, subjecting them to forced sterilization, forced abortion, torture, forced labor, and the removal of children from their families. Additionally, more than one million Uyghurs are being detained inside internment camps—facilities the communist regime has defended as “vocational training schools.” China countered by slapping its own sanctions on Canadian parliamentarians, U.S religious-rights officials, UK lawmakers, and EU politicians—including five members of the European Parliament. The Chinese …