The U.S. has been frequently sanctioning Chinese Communist Party officials who violate human rights in China, from senior officials at the vice-state level down to police officers at the grassroots level, in what can be described as a “tiger and fly attack. Netizens applauded the sanctions, saying that the U.S. did a great service to the Chinese people by sanctioning these evil Chinese Communist Party officials.
The U.S. State Department announced on December 7 that it had imposed sanctions on 14 vice chairmen of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. These officials were responsible for passing the “Hong Kong version of the National Security Law” and for the persecution of Hong Kong’s autonomy by the Chinese Communist Party.
Subsequently, on December 10, the U.S. again imposed sanctions on 17 foreign officials for serious human rights violations or corruption, including Huang Yuanxiong, a police officer at Wucun Police Station of the Siming Branch of Xiamen’s Public Security Bureau.
The State Department statement noted that Huang Yuanxiong’s involvement in the detention and interrogation of Falun Gong practitioners is a serious violation of human rights and religious freedom. The statement also emphasized that the world will not stand idly by as the Chinese Communist government system commits human rights abuses.
According to U.S. regulations, all sanctioned Chinese Communist Party officials and their immediate family members are banned from entering the United States and their assets in the United States will be frozen.
The U.S. sanctioning of Chinese Communist Party officials is a “tiger and fly strike” that has sparked a lot of public debate, with netizens applauding the move. Mr. Yue, a resident of Fujian, told the Voice of America, “I think this is the right thing to do because the issue is about crimes against humanity, and the cause is the beliefs of Falun Gong. The U.S. government must have evidence to do this, and this sanction also gives a name to Falun Gong’s beliefs,”
Independent commentator Lu Nannan said that the sanctions against the CCP’s grassroots police would serve as a deterrent, and that the CCP’s police, in demolishing houses, dealing with religious issues, suppressing petitions, suppressing human rights incidents and economic disputes among the public, “often adopt very bad practices, are lawless and particularly brutal, and consciously and unconsciously regard their actions as justified work.”
The U.S. sanctions, according to Lu, “will make the police consider that there will be certain consequences in the future, and you may raise your gun an inch when you are doing evil, so that you can get by and let people get by. For people with a slight conscience, people who have hope in life, this sanction will have a divisive effect and will still be psychologically useful.”
The U.S. sanctions against 14 senior CCP officials at the vice state level have put the top brass in Zhongnanhai on pins and needles. Chinese Canadian writer Sheng Xue said, “This policy of the Trump administration now is very powerful, very right, and for many Chinese Communist Party officials, such a cost they can’t afford to pay, in their families, in the environment where they live and work, and in their circle of power core, there will soon be a betrayal of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Sheng Xue said the Trump administration is telling the Chinese Communist Party authorities, and those specific officials who are doing evil, “What they are doing, the outside world is watching, the U.S. is watching, and the U.S. has a direct policy response.”
Xiao Ying, a mainlander, is happy that the U.S. has sanctioned senior Communist Party officials, “I can only describe it as happy, the higher the officials, the more evil they do, in the Chinese system, a conscientious, moral people absolutely can not rise high, the people of China live so hard, but also they are above the fate of a country, I think those higher officials, also sanction those higher people, that is more painful to the people.”
Xiao Ying told New Tang Dynasty that the U.S. did the Chinese people a great service by sanctioning these evil Chinese Communist Party officials.
In addition, the Chinese Communist Party is helpless to do anything about the U.S. sanctions. Although the spokesman of the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Ministry claimed to take countermeasures, he could not come up with a specific list of sanctions and measures, which in turn provoked ridicule from netizens.
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