The Chinese regime recently sanctioned more than 20 officials, politicians, and researchers from the UK, EU, Canada, and the United States in retaliation for coordinated sanctions on Chinese officials involved in human rights violations in Xinjiang. “I think this is unprecedented,” Dovilė Šakalienė, a member of Lithuania’s Parliament who was sanctioned by China, said at an online panel discussion on April 8. “For the first time sanctions are applied for defending human rights and not for human rights violation.” The blacklisted officials and their families are prohibited from doing business with Chinese companies or traveling to China. But the sanctions are not helping the Chinese regime, Miriam Lexmann, another member of the EU Parliament who was sanctioned, said at the same event. It is only allowing more people to see what China is capable of doing, she said. Around 1 million Uyghurs have been held in secret internment camps in …