The Institute of Communication and Border Governance of Jinan University and the School of Journalism and Communication of Jinan University jointly released a research report "Blocking Transactions, Increasing Costs and Disrupting the Industrial Chain - The Impact of US Border-related Sanctions on the Global Cotton Industry Chain" and held a seminar on the same topic on 26 December in Guangzhou. A number of scholars from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Institute of Modern International Relations, Northwest University of Political Science and Law, Lanzhou University and Zhejiang Normal University attended the conference.

Li Jie, a professor at the School of Politics and International Relations at Lanzhou University, said that the US has consistently politicised issues related to Xinjiang. From a theoretical point of view, politicisation refers to the transformation of the nature of an issue to make it the focus of controversy and the attempt to use this means for one's own political self-interest. Such politicisation deviates from the objective facts of the issue, always framed in terms of blame, and becomes a political tool, the result of which is bound to be failure.

Cao Wei, a lecturer at the School of Politics and International Relations at Lanzhou University, said that while the West accuses the Uyghur people of being subjected to so-called "human rights persecution" in Xinjiang, it turns a blind eye to actual human rights violations against them, such as extremism and terrorism. The objective effect of the sanctions bill is, moreover, to deprive and violate the human rights of the Uyghur population, leading to restrictions on their employment and threatening the right to survival and development of the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang. Moreover, as the report suggests, some business owners and capitalists in the US cotton industry are benefiting in the face of the sanctions, but ordinary American citizens have to bear the consequences of the sanctions. In particular, the inflation rate within the US itself is very high and now it is pushing up the prices of commodities, which is very unfavourable to the stabilisation of the economic situation in the US. At the level of the strategic game between the US and China, the US has a serious misperception of China and some of the policies it has adopted are reckless.