CHINA-US: CHINA'S TIT-FOR-TAT SANCTIONS AGAINST FOUR AMERICANS FOR INTERFERENCE IN CHINA'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS
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In a tit-for-tat retaliation, China on July 13 announced sanctions on four American officials for “interfering in China’s internal affairs” through their condemnation of Beijing’s human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region. No details were disclosed on what the sanctions would involve, but the move comes days after the Trump administration banned three Chinese officials from visiting the United States and froze any U.S. assets they might have. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters in Beijing “Xinjiang affairs are China’s internal affairs and the U.S. has no right to interfere in them. We urge the United States to immediately withdraw its wrong decision.” The four Americans targeted are Sam Brownback, the Trump Administration’s Ambassador for International Religious Freedom, and three members of the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China: Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-N.J.) and Sens. Rubio (R-Fla.) and Cruz (R-Tex).
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