In response to the U.S. sanctioning of 14 Chinese deputy state officials over the Hong Kong issue, China announced today (Dec. 10) so-called “reciprocal” countermeasures, once again becoming a source of laughter for netizens.
Today, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a regular press conference that China has decided to impose so-called “reciprocal sanctions” on officials of the U.S. executive branch, members of Congress, non-governmental organizations and their immediate family members who have behaved badly on issues related to Hong Kong and bear the main responsibility. At the same time, U.S. diplomatic passport holders will be denied visa-free access to Hong Kong and Macau.
On the 7th of this month, the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against Cai Dafeng, Cao Jianming, Chen Zhu, Wu Weihua, Zhang Chunxian and 14 other current Vice Chairmen of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party’s National People’s Congress for their role in Beijing’s disqualification of elected opposition members in Hong Kong. The sanctions bar them from entering the United States with their families and freeze their assets in the United States.
On the 8th, Hua Chunying said that China would take “resolute and strong” countermeasures. Today, the aforementioned sanctions were introduced. However, it is noted that Hua Chunying has not specified when the above sanctions will take effect, nor has she listed the specific sanctions and announced the freezing of the assets of the sanctioned persons in China.
In response, netizens have mocked the Chinese Communist Party for its empty words.
“You don’t give people visas when they freeze your assets outside of China, so that doesn’t seem like a very reciprocal sanction.”
“People are sanctioning your paid state level, you are sanctioning people with diplomatic passports and temporary visits to Hong Kong and Macau, this is also called reciprocity? Big Sister Hua this language is taught by gymnasts.”
“This is not right! Can someone speak for me and Xiao Yingzi: as reciprocity, freeze the assets of Rice officials in China.”
“Haha, American officials have so many properties, second wives and houses in China, such as Hunter Biden, Zuckerberg, Obama, broken gongs and rare, Hillary, Bush family, etc.! Sanction hard!”
“Is this countermeasure just for laughs?”
“The Chinese Communist Party is looking for bigger and bigger countermeasures from the U.S.”
“Accelerate, go for it.”
In August this year, in response to the Chinese Communist Party’s push for a Hong Kong version of the National Security Law, U.S. President Donald Trump announced sanctions against 11 Chinese and Hong Kong officials, including Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor. The subsequent countermeasures proposed by the Chinese Communist Party instead sanctioned U.S. Senators Rubio, Cruz, Hawley, Cotton, Toomey, Congressman Smith, and the heads of several non-governmental organizations. Outsiders discovered that none of them were members of the Trump administration.
In October, in retaliation for U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, the Chinese Communist Party declared that it would sanction U.S. companies Lockheed Martin, Boeing Defense, and Raytheon. But none of these three companies have any business in China, and netizens have raised the question: How to sanction?
Time and again, the Chinese Communist Party’s so-called sanctions against the United States have been reduced to a joke.
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