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Western Sanctions on Xinjiang: An Impact Assessment

Dr. Alexander Kriebitz is a political scientist, who studies the overlap of international law, business ethics and international relations. His current project is a re-examination of the business and human rights discourse and the division of labor between states and companies in fulfilling human rights responsibilities. More generally, his research interests include the ethical conduct of technological and commercial exchange with authoritarian regimes. His regional focus lies on Xinjiang and North Korea. Following reports on escalating human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), the West has responded with economic sanctions on organizations and individuals involved in atrocity crimes including an American embargo of goods manufactured by forced labor of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities. In order to substantiate the debate on the utility of sanctioning the XUAR, the following article sheds light onto the political, economic, and human rights implications of the imposed measures. The preliminary ob-servations discussed in the article point at the practical limitations of sanctioning entities at a subnational level, reveal how economic and political costs reduce the size of the sanctioning coalition, and suggest that the current sanctions framework enhances the relative power of state-affiliated agents within Xinjiang’s political economy vis-à-vis private sector entities.