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The European Union, Britain and the United States on Monday blacklisted Chinese officials allegedly involved in the ongoing persecution of Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. EU and British authorities designated the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, or XPCC, a state-run organization responsible for managing hundreds of internment camps in China's westernmost region, where as many as 2 million Uighurs have been detained in the past four years. EU and U.K. officials also designated Hailun Zhu, former deputy secretary for Xinjiang, XPCC deputy Junzheng Wang, Communist Party official Mingshan Wang, and Mingguo Chen, director of the Xinjiang Public...