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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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China imposed sanctions on former Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and other Trump administration officials even as Joe Biden took office, saying they had made “crazy moves” that damaged ties between the United States and China.
Also on the list of 28 people sanctioned were former President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, and his deputy Matt Pottinger, trade adviser Peter Navarro and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, according to a statement issued Wednesday by China. Foreign Office as the inauguration of Biden. They and their families will be prohibited from entering China, Hong Kong or Macao, or doing business with China.
The officials listed were instrumental in shaping the Trump administration’s most confrontational stance toward China, which included a series of sanctions and a declaration, on its final day, that the government had committed genocide in its Xinjiang region. Also on the list were former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and former National Security adviser John Bolton.
The officials “planned, promoted and executed a series of insane moves that have seriously interfered in China’s internal affairs, undermined China’s interests, offended the Chinese people and seriously disrupted China-US relations,” he said. the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement.
China’s targets are likely to use the sanctions as a badge of honor. Pompeo, who has criticized China in a series of tweets in recent days, can boast of his tough stance in a future political campaign.
