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While the Joe Biden administration suggested that China impose additional sanctions on the recently passed Hong Kong electoral reform bill, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the US sanctions were “violation of international law and serious interference in internal affairs.” In addition, the Chinese state media raised the level of criticism, saying, “We have no choice but to retaliate.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijen said at a regular briefing held on the 17th, regarding additional sanctions from the United States over the Hong Kong issue, “this is a move that goes against the basic principles of international law and international relations, and is a serious interference with Chinese internal affairs.”
Spokesman Zhao said the same was true not only in Hong Kong, but also in Taiwan and Diao Yudao (Japan’s Senkaku Islands, a disputed place for sovereignty over China and Japan). “China has uncontroversial sovereignty in these regions.
Accordingly, he criticized the US pressure and sanctions as’serious intervention in internal affairs’.
He also argued that mentioning additional sanctions caused the US to interfere with China’s internal affairs, causing confusion in Hong Kong, and also revealed a fierce intent to prevent peace and development in China.
A spokesman for Zhao also suggested that China strongly opposes the US’s behavior, suggesting a possible counterattack, saying, “We are already taking necessary measures.”
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His remarks are that US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln pointed out that China has undermined Hong Kong’s electoral system in connection with the recent reorganization of the Hong Kong electoral system passed at the National People’s Congress of China. It came out while saying that it would be.
Minister Blincoln warned that “foreign financial institutions that make significant transactions with them will be subject to sanctions,” he said, confirming the identities of 24 Chinese and Hong Kong officials who have reduced Hong Kong’s autonomy.
In this regard, the Global Times of China’s state-run Global Times has raised the level of criticism even further. The media mocked, “These sanctions were already issued during the former administration of Donald Trump, and many Chinese officials are already being sanctioned by the US government,” and “it will not affect us at all,” the media mocked.
The Global Times, however, argued that if the Biden administration imposes new sanctions, “China has no choice but to retaliate,” and argued that the United States should not come up with a hard line before even talking with China.