Hong Kong: The Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of China’s State Council on Tuesday expressed strong indignation and condemnation on U.S. sanctions targeted at officials in charge of Hong Kong affairs. The actions of the United States count as political bullying and are contrary to international law and basic norms of international relations, it said in a statement. The US earlier imposed sanctions against Chinese and Hong Kong officials over the passage of the National Security Law, which is seen as rolling back civil liberties in the territory, as well as over abuses against Muslim minority groups in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. The US sanctions targeted up to 14 officials over their alleged role in “Beijing’s disqualification of elected opposition legislators in Hong Kong,” including officials in China’s top legislature and the Communist Party of China (CPC), with measures including freezing assets and travel bans.
–The Daily Mail-CGTN
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