US Lawmakers Ask Blinken to Issue ‘Do Not Travel’ Notice for Xinjiang

Published on March 7, 2024

Leaders of a bipartisan U.S. commission are asking the State Department to advise Americans against traveling to the Xinjiang region of western China, where the U.S. authorities say genocide is taking place. Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ohio), chair and co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, requesting him to raise the travel advisory rating for Xinjiang to the highest level—Level 4: Do Not Travel—which generally means that people shouldn’t travel there. The alert, according to the lawmakers, was designed to make sure that “no U.S. policies implicitly endorse the PRC’s atrocities,” referring to China’s official name, the People’s Republic of China....

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