For the mainland Ministry of Commerce launched “blocking the improper extraterritorial application of foreign laws and measures”, scholars analyze that it does apply to land and Hong Kong officials, including Carrie Lam, who were sanctioned by the United States. Photo shows Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor. (Xinhua News Agency)
For the mainland Ministry of Commerce launched the “blocking the improper extraterritorial application of foreign laws and measures”, Chen Xinxin, professor emeritus of the Department of Diplomacy and International Relations at Tamkang University, pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party mainly warned the new U.S. government not to continue Trump‘s set of China, the specific application includes responding to U.S. sanctions on Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and officials involved in Xinjiang, but the mainland law can not be extended to the United States, so eventually returned to retaliatory measures, such as the same mainland sanctions on U.S. officials, the suspension of visas, but retaliatory measures are rarely more than the United States.
Chen Xinxin said in an interview, the mainland now launched this law is mainly for the new U.S. government, precautionary, I hope Biden do not go Trump on the set, but the law can actually happen effect is the problem, after all, the mainland law can not “long arm jurisdiction” to the United States, Beijing may have a deterrent effect on other countries, but at this stage the United States is not afraid.
Chen Xinxin’s analysis, including Carrie Lam and other U.S.-sanctioned officials in Hong Kong and China, as well as officials involved in Xinjiang affairs, does meet the law’s application to “improperly prohibit or restrict Chinese citizens, legal persons or other organizations” from engaging in “normal economic, trade and related activities” with third countries (regions) and their citizens, legal persons or other organizations. However, he believes that the legal effect is limited, so in the end it is back to the old retaliation methods, such as “I also stop issuing visas”, and the fact that few U.S. officials have financial accounts in the mainland.
Chen Xinxin said, from the past few years, in fact, the Chinese Communist Party’s countermeasures rarely exceed the U.S., because the mainland does not want to tear the face of the United States. As for the U.S. sanctions or requests for delisting of mainland enterprises in the United States, the law is not very helpful, mainland enterprises in the United States can only comply with local laws, otherwise it is a way to withdraw from the United States.
He stressed that the mainland retaliated against the United States in the past to leave room for more, is not want the United States and China to stay in a state of chaos, from a period of time before the mainland foreign minister Wang Yi repeated talks can be seen, the mainland hopes to return to the right track with the United States, but Biden would have let the United States back on track.
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