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On November 30, Communist Party of China Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying stated at a regular press conference that on November 9, the United States Department of State and the Department of the Treasury sanctioned four officials of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Hong Kong. As a counterattack, the CCP will sanction the National Fund for Democracy. John Knaus, Senior Director of Asian Affairs, Anand, Director of the Asia Project of the American Association for Democracy in International Affairs, Rosario, Director of the Hong Kong Branch and Xue Deao, Project Director; they will be banned from entering China, including Hong Kong and Macau.
Hua Chunying also introduced the customary saying of the Chinese Communist Party Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the Hong Kong issue is an internal matter and strongly opposes US interference in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong netizens scoffed at this.
“Bandits share chicken-style sanctions in elementary schools. It’s really laughable.” “If you do not defend yourself, you have no face and it is useless to fight.” “Why are you penalizing people? They are not allowed to buy patio houses or go to Didini (Hong Kong Disneyland. Paradise)?” “These Americans do not use RMB, Alipay, UnionPay … (comparable to the sanctions of United States) “.
There are also people from Hong Kong who make fun: “What is the use of using non-governmental think tanks?”, “Do you have the courage to try to sanction Pompeo, Commerce Minister Ross?”, “Civil organizations, don’t you dare to punish government agencies? It’s a laugh. ” “There is nothing new, it really is a plagiarism from a great country.”
Another Hong Kong netizen said: “At the end of the Communist Party’s violent crossbow, all the Chinese people will suffer.”
The two organizations that these four people and their staff belong to were reportedly sanctioned by the CCP in August and December last year. On August 10 last year, to retaliate against the United States for sanctioning 11 senior officials from China and Hong Kong who undermined Hong Kong’s freedom, Chinese Communist Party Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Zhao Lijian stated that the CCP would impose sanctions on Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy, and Midway, president of the American Association for Democracy. Waiting for 11 Americans; On December 2 of the same year, in retaliation for the passage of the “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act” by the United States, the CCP sanctioned the National Fund for Democracy (NED) and the National Democratic Institute ( National Democratic Institute, NDI).
At the time, the White House responded that the CCP sanctions were ineffective and that President Trump would continue to be tough on the CCP.
The “National Democracy Foundation” comes primarily from the annual financial allocation of the United States Congress, the “American Association for Democracy in International Affairs” is funded and promoted primarily by the National Democracy Foundation.
In addition, the four Hong Kong and Chinese officials sanctioned by the United States on November 9 this year include: Li Jiangzhou, deputy director of the National Security Agency of the Central Government of the Communist Party of China in Hong Kong, Liu Cihui, deputy director of the National Security Division of the Hong Kong Police, and Senior Police of the National Security Division of the Hong Kong Police. Secretary Li Guihua and Deng Zhonghua, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office. US Secretary of State Pompeo said on Twitter that the policies and actions in which they had participated undermined Hong Kong’s autonomy and eroded the rule of law.
On the 14th of last month (US local time), the US State Department submitted a report to Congress, pursuant to the “Hong Kong Home Rule Act”, listing the sanctions against 10 Chinese and Hong Kong officials, including Hong Kong Executive Director Carrie Lam, Director of the Office of the Chief Executive and Secretary of the National Security Commission. Director Chen Guoji, Secretary of Justice Zheng Ruohua, Secretary of Security Li Jiachao, Secretary of Constitutional and Continental Affairs Zeng Guowei, Director of Police Deng Bingqiang, Director of Liaison Office Luo Huining, Director of Hong Kong Affairs Office and Macao, Deputy Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office Zhang Xiaoming, and Long Zheng Yanxiong National Security Office. #
Editor-in-Chief: Gao Jing
