On the day of the U.S. regime transition, the Chinese Communist Party‘s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it had sanctioned 28 former officials of the Trump administration. One of the sanctioned former U.S. Undersecretary of State Klatch said he treated the CCP sanctions as a badge of honor and that the U.S. should not succumb to the CCP bullies. Former White House strategic adviser Bannon also said it was a great honor to be sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party.
On the afternoon of January 20, EST, when the new President Biden, certified by the U.S. Congress, held his inauguration and handover ceremony in Washington, D.C., the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement in the early morning of January 21, Beijing Time, announcing sanctions against 28 members of the Trump Administration.
These include: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House Trade Adviser Navarro, National Security Adviser O’Brien, Assistant Secretary of State Stalwell, and former National Security Adviser Bolton, former Undersecretary of State Kratch, former White House Chief Strategic Advisor Bannon, Deputy National Security Adviser Bomen, and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Craft.
A statement from the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said these individuals seriously interfered in the internal affairs of the Communist Party and damaged U.S.-China relations, banning them and their families from entering China and Hong Kong and Macau, and restricting their affiliated companies and institutions from dealing and doing business with China.
However, the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Ministry announced sanctions against 28 former U.S. officials, listing only 10 of them.
Hu Ping, editor-in-chief emeritus of Beijing Spring, told Voice of America that the CCP’s sanctions are a gesture, indicating that an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and that the number of officials sanctioned by the U.S. against the CCP is large, and he cannot appear too few, and it does not matter at all who is behind, he wants to make up that number, and if the names are published others find it more ridiculous because it is more irrelevant.
For Beijing singled out officials who are tough on the CCP for sanctions. Hu Ping said, this is Beijing is putting pressure on the new Biden Administration, if you also take this attitude to the Chinese Communist government will how how.
Netizens, on the other hand, mocked the Chinese Communist Party’s ability to amuse itself by imposing sanctions while they are in office, and outgoing officials are just flat-earthers in the United States. The new Secretary of State Blinken supports Pompeo’s definition of the Chinese Communist Party as genocide, have the guts to sanction the new Secretary of State ah.
The new Secretary of State has the courage to sanction the new Secretary of State,” said U.S.-based current affairs commentator Lan Shu to the New Tang Dynasty, these senior White House officials in office, the Chinese Communist Party does not dare to mess with them, fearing that after messing with them, they will be sanctioned more heavily.
According to Gobi Dong, an independent scholar and commentary columnist in the United States, the Chinese Communist Party knows very well that these sanctions are useless and have no substantive meaning, which looks more like children playing house.
It is a “great honor” to be sanctioned by the totalitarian Chinese Communist Party
However, to the embarrassment of the CCP, being sanctioned by the CCP’s totalitarian regime is considered a “great honor” in American politics.
After the Chinese Communist Party announced the sanctions, Klatch tweeted on the 21st that they all regard the sanctions as an honor, a badge of honor, and that the U.S. should not submit to the Chinese Communist bullies. He said: When you stand up to bullies, they will only back down, especially when you have friends around to support. That’s why they formed the Clean Internet Democracy Coalition, which has been a great success.
The “Clean Network Democracy Coalition” is a U.S. State Department initiative launched in 2020 to convince countries around the world to stop using Chinese 5G telecom equipment that raises information security concerns.
In addition to Klatch, former White House strategic adviser Bannon responded on January 20 via a tweet by Washington Post reporter Josh Rogin, saying that he was sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party as a “great honor” and that he would work harder to fight for the freedom of “ordinary people” in China.
The sanctioned U.S. senators, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, have already been on the Communist Party’s sanctions list twice in 2020.
At the time of his second sanction by the CCP, Rubio had mocked on Twitter, “Last month China banned me from entering the country, today they sanctioned me. I don’t want to be too much, but I’m starting to think they don’t like me.” He added: It makes him feel proud that a totalitarian or evil regime is against you, and that means you’re right.
For its part, the Trump administration has sanctioned Chinese and Hong Kong officials three times for persecuting Hong Kong people’s democracy and freedom since the Communist Party implemented the “Hong Kong version of the National Security Law” on June 30, 2020.
The targets of the sanctions include: all 14 vice-chairmen of the Chinese Communist Party’s National People’s Congress (NPC); Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office Xia Baolong, Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government (LOCPG) Luo Huining and other senior officials; Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee You Quan; Deputy Director of the State Security Office in Hong Kong Sun Qingye; Member of the Standing Committee of the NPC Tam Yiu-chung; and Director of the National Security Division of the Hong Kong Police Force Choi Chin-pang. They were all senior officials in office.
On July 9 of the same year, the Trump administration also ordered sanctions against four people responsible for undermining Uighur human rights in Xinjiang, freezing their assets and banning them from entering the country. The sanctions included Chen Guanguo, a member of the CCP’s Politburo and secretary of the CCP’s Xinjiang Party Committee, as well as other senior officials responsible for political, legal, and public security in Xinjiang.
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