# Why is the U.S. government targeting Chinese sunflower seeds and dumplings?

https://mins.news/en/item/16143

- China News Service, 2026-08-07 11:15 UTC
- Politics
- Original: http://www.ecns.cn/video/2026-08-07/detail-ihfhziqh0066353.shtml

> The U.S. Department of Homeland Security added 43 more Chinese companies to its entity list on July 31 under the so-called Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. Josef Gregory Mahoney, a politics and international relations professor at East China Normal University, said labeling even sunflower seeds and dumplings as a “threat” exposes what he described as the absurdity of the U.S. move.

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