Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Aug 5: In response to Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, China’s foreign ministry imposed sanctions against the US House Speaker on Friday, according to the news agency AFP.
“Pelosi was seriously interfering in China’s internal affairs and seriously undermining China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity with the visit, and that Beijing would impose sanctions on Pelosi and her immediate family, without giving further details,” said the ministry.
For acting against what it sees as its vital interests and speaking out on human rights issues in Hong Kong and the northwest region of Xinjiang, China has announced sanctions on a number of US officials in recent years, frequently without outlining specific punitive measures.
Beijing announced in March of this year that it was placing visa restrictions on a list of unnamed American officials who were accused of “concocting lies on human rights concerns concerning China.”
