The United States government applies sanctions against the Chinese government and key members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The US maintained embargoes against China from the inception of the People's Republic of China in 1949 until 1972. An embargo was reimposed by the US following the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989. In 2020, the US imposed sanctions and visa restrictions against several Chinese government officials, in response to allegations of a genocide against the Uyghur population in Xinjiang and human rights abuses in Hong Kong and Tibet.