Commentary On March 22, the European Union announced that it would impose sanctions on Chinese officials, including one entity, over Beijing’s serious human rights violations in Xinjiang. The sanctions were the first significant measures since the EU arms embargo was imposed on China after the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. Four senior officials and one entity, the Public Security Bureau of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, were imposed a travel ban and an asset freeze. The CCP immediately retaliated by imposing sanctions on eight ambassadors in the EU (including five members of the European Parliament, one Dutch Parliament member, one Belgian Federal Parliament member, and one member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania); two scholars (German scholar Adrian Zenz, Swedish scholar Björn Jerdén); and four entities (the Political and Security Committee of the Council of the European Union, the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament, the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Germany, …