China Sanctions Members of Congress, Without Naming Them, for Human Rights Support

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The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Monday sanctions against several US officials, including the members of the Congress, who allegedly “worked badly” on issues related to Hong Kong.

The sanctions were clearly in retaliation for the tariffs of President Donald Trump and for the sanctions that the United States presented against Chinese and Hong Kong officials in March for participating in the “transnational repression.”

The United States Department of State Brought sanctions Against six officials in Hong Kong for abusing the “National Security Law” of Hong “to” intimidate, silence and harass 19 prodemocratic activists who were forced to flee from abroad. ” One of the activists was an American citizen and four of the others were American residents.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying The sanctions demonstrated “Trump’s admission to hold those responsible for depriving people in Hong Kong of protected rights and freedoms or who commit acts of transnational repression in the US soil or against US people.”

Trump’s first administration and Biden administration tax Sanctions against Chinese officials for compromising Hong Kong’s autonomy and practicing transnational repression.

Porcelain fiercely He condemned the sanctions of March 31, promising that the “resolved countermeasures” would soon be tasks. It ended until the week to arrive those countermeasures.

Spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Guo Jiakun repeated China’s complaint of the sanctions of the United States as “severe interference in the affairs of Hong Kong, which are China’s internal affairs” by announcing Beijing’s reprisals on Monday.

Guo said that China would sanction “members of Congress, officials and bosses of NGOs (non -governmental organizations) who acted atrociously in matters of Hong Kong.” He did not appoint the objectives of the sanctions.

Guo said that retaliation sanctions were authorized by the “Law of Anti-Externa Sanctions of the People’s Republic of China”, a threatening law approved by the Chinese rubber print legislature in 2021 that appears the Takestest prints of Takestest Takes Takes Takest Takest Stamps Takestst’s Takestst’s Takestinstinstinstinstinstinstinstinstinstinstinstin.

“Our message to the United States: Hong Kong is the Brook of the affairs of Hong Kong and Hong Kong of China, it is not interference from the United States,” Guo said.

“The erroneous practice of the United States about the problems related to Hong Kong will meet the resolved response of China and reciprocal countermeasures,” he threatened.

The tariff war between the United States and China was undoubtedly considered in Beijing’s actions. Chinese officials have denounced American tariffs, which now total up to 245 percent, as “arrogant and shameless.”

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