
This week the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, and Canada sanctions top Chinese officials because of the human rights violation against Uyghurs in Chinese province Xinjiang. Just day after that, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in China and with his Chinese college announced sanctions toward EU. Last week US-Chinese talks in Alaska was unusual, between Secretary Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Chinese top diplomats Yang Jiechi, and Wang Yi. What happened in Alaska, what is going on in Xinjiang, and why sanctions now find out in our new episode.