Retaliatory sanctions in the U.S. and Canada following China and Britain… “Don’t lie about your kidneys”

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China is continuing sanctions against Western countries for pointing out human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on the evening of the 27th that it would sanction some individuals and organizations in the United States and Canada on the kidney problem. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained that it was a counter-action measure following these countries imposing sanctions against China based on “lie and false information” against Xinjiang.

On the list of sanctions released by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs that day, Gale Manchin, chairman of the US International Religious Freedom Commission (USCIRF), Vice Chairman Tony Perkins, Canadian Congressman Michael Chong, and the subcommittee on international human rights in the Canadian Parliament were named. Due to Chinese sanctions, they could not enter mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau in the future, and transactions with Chinese citizens and institutions were also made impossible.

It has been one day after sanctions were imposed on nine British personnel, including House Foreign Affairs Commissioner Tom Tugentad, and four groups, including a ban on entry and a freeze of assets in China. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China the previous day, Chairman Tugentad, Rep. Ian Duncan Smith, Rep. Neil O’Brien, Rep. Nusra Ghani, Rep. Tim Lawton, Sen. Helena Kennedy, Sen. David Olton, Sir Jeffrey Nice, and Professor Joanna Finley of Newcastle University. Was put on the subject of sanctions. All of them were not directly involved in the British government’s sanctions against China, but they criticized China by submitting bills related to Xinjiang in Parliament or through reports and media interviews.

In addition, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also put on the list of sanctions such as the’China Research Group’, a research group centered on Conservative lawmakers, and the Conservative Human Rights Committee.

The Chinese government sanctioned 28 key figures in the former administration of Donald Trump, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on January 21, just after the inauguration of the US administration Joe Biden. Even when the European Union (EU) sanctioned four former and incumbent Chinese officials on the 22nd, China sanctioned 10 incumbent EU lawmakers and scholars.

Usually, when a conflict occurs between countries and one country imposes sanctions on another country, the other country retaliates with the same number. China has maintained this principle of equality until last year, but it appears to be taking a stronger response this year. It is also new that governments and political party organizations are subject to sanctions. In this regard, Cui Hong-Jen, head of the European Institute for International Studies in China, predicted that “the sanctions and counter-actions between China and Western countries will continue in the future,” in an interview with China’s Global Times.