BEIJING: Beijing has suspended review of requests by US military ships and aircraft to visit Hong Kong in response to a Hong Kong-related legislation passed by the US lawmakers, which Beijing said was blatant interference by Washington DC.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying told a regular press briefing yesterday that a number of US-based nongovernmental organisations, including the National Endowment for Democracy and Human Rights Watch, would be subjected to sanctions from China.
Last week US President Donald Trump signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which requires the president to annually review the city’s favourable trade status and threatens to revoke it if the semi-autonomous territory’s freedoms are quashed.
The move came as the world’s two biggest economies have been striving to finalise a “phase one” deal in their protracted trade war.
China had already denied requests for two US Navy ships to dock in Hong Kong in August. — China Daily/ANN
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying told a regular press briefing yesterday that a number of US-based nongovernmental organisations, including the National Endowment for Democracy and Human Rights Watch, would be subjected to sanctions from China.
Last week US President Donald Trump signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which requires the president to annually review the city’s favourable trade status and threatens to revoke it if the semi-autonomous territory’s freedoms are quashed.
The move came as the world’s two biggest economies have been striving to finalise a “phase one” deal in their protracted trade war.
China had already denied requests for two US Navy ships to dock in Hong Kong in August. — China Daily/ANN
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