China has imposed sanctions against former US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo and 27 other officials of the Trump administration.
The action
came 24 hours after Pompeo accused China of genocide against Uighur Muslims.
The
announcement was made as Joe Biden took oath of office as President.
China said
Pompeo and others had “executed a series of crazy moves, gravely interfered in
China’s internal affairs, undermined China’s interests, offended the Chinese
people, and seriously disrupted China-US relations”.
Former
officials affected are trade chief, Peter Navarro; national security advisers
Robert O’Brien and John Bolton; health secretary, Alex Azar; UN ambassador
Kelly Craft, and Steve Bannon.
The
ex-appointees and immediate family members would be banned from entering China,
Hong Kong or Macao; companies and institutions associated with them can no
longer do do business with China.
A foreign
ministry spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, told the media that Pompeo has made so many
lies in recent years.
“This US
politician is notorious for lying and cheating, is making himself a laughing
stock and a clown. We hope the new US administration can have their own
reasonable and cool-minded judgment on Xinjiang issues, among other issues,”
she said.
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