BEIJING: China has on Monday announced sanctions against 11 US individuals with “egregious records on Hong Kong affairs.”
A Chinese News agency on the sanction said “this is a necessary move opposing the US anti-China forces’ flagrant interference in China’s internal affairs over a long period of time.” The news agency further said that the sanction was also “a solemn move to safeguard China’s national sovereignty, security and development interests.”
According the news report “the anti-China forces in the United States have long been concocting rumors and fabricating accusations, blatantly meddling in Hong Kong affairs under the pretext of human rights, democracy and autonomy. They supported and used anti-China “pawns” like Jimmy Lai Chee-ying to incite violence, undermine the rule of law and social order in Hong Kong and sabotage the city’s prosperity and stability.”
