China threatened to introduce sanctions against five American officials who caught support for opposition in Hong Kong. It is prohibited by the Americans to own Chinese assets, and is also closed entry into the territory of the country, transfers Global Times. The immediate administration of the ban was informed by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zhao Liacyman.
Among those who fall under sanctions are prominent figures of American-Chinese relations. In particular, this is the former head of the US Congress Executive Commission for China Jonathan Stevers, the former US Trade Minister Wilbur Ross, head of the Congress Commission on China’s and USA’s Relations Analysis (Carolyn Bartholomew), employee of the National Democratic Institute of Dyune Kim ( Doyun Kim) and the head of the Chinese program of the International Republican Institute Adam King. For the first time on sanctions against them they spoke in the summer.
In addition to the ban on the entry and freezing of assets, the Americans will also be prohibited from doing business with Chinese citizens and companies, to carry out any financial transactions with them. China found it with a response for July US sanctions when Washington imposed restrictions on Chinese officials in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong for a long time was independent of China by the city that the British Colonial Administration first managed, and then independent local authorities. However, in 2019, Beijing began to lead the city management system to general-day standards. A special aggravation of relations to the “Hong Kong issue” between China and the United States began after adopting in 2020 Beijing the Law on National Security, which allowed the Chinese authorities to more actively fight the opposition in the city. In addition, at the beginning of 2021, the All-China Public Representatives Assembly changed the Hong Kong election system.
In China, they consider the course to integrate the city into the political system by analogy with the rest of the PRC parts “the only right”. With the approval of the actions of the Communist Party of China, on December 27, director of Hong Kong Research Center Wang Zhenmin.