China has placed sanctions on 11 US citizens, including legislators and the heads of several US-based non-governmental organisations, in the latest tit-for-tat measure over a national security law imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing.
In response to a similar move by the US last week, China’s foreign ministry said on Monday it would target US citizens who have “behaved egregiously on Hong Kong-related issues”.
Without specifying what sanctions would entail, the ministry named the Republican senators Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley and Pat Toomey, the Republican representative Chris Smith, and the heads of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the National Endowment for Democracy, the International Republican Institute, Human Rights Watch and Freedom House.
On Friday the US announced sanctions on Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, as well as 10 other senior Chinese and Hong Kong officials, freezing any US-based assets and barring…
