Visa restrictions on US officials by China.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said the country had decided to impose visa restrictions on some US officials.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Weinbin said on Thursday that China had decided to impose visa restrictions on a number of US officials.
“In order to protect the legitimate interests of Chinese citizens, Beijing has decided to impose administrative restrictions on US officials who spread lies about human rights in China and harm China’s interests,” he told a news conference. .
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced last week that the United States would impose visa restrictions on Chinese officials who the United States claims play a role in cracking down on China’s religious and ethnic minorities.
In recent years, tensions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China have been strained over a range of issues, including the origins of the corona, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and more.
The US government alleges human rights abuses against the Uyghur minority in China’s Xinjiang province; A claim that Beijing officials have vehemently denied, urging the United States to look to its history of crimes in West Asian Muslim countries instead of making a humanitarian gesture.
