China has retaliated with sanctions against two US bodies and their senior executives who hosted Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen during her stay in the United States, with Beijing claiming the Americans provided platforms and facilities for “Taiwan independence”.
Beijing on Friday imposed a package of sanctions on a diehard Taiwan independence separatist, two Taiwan organizations, as well as US Hudson Institute and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and four US individuals, as countermeasures, signaling a resolute response to the latest meeting between Taiwan regional leader Tsai Ing-wen and the US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California.
China announced sanctions Friday against two Asia-based organizations and Taiwan s representative in the U.S. in response to the closely watched meeting this week between the U.S. House Speaker and Taiwan s president.
China has imposed further sanctions on Hsiao Bi-khim, Taiwan s de facto ambassador to the United States, prohibiting her and family members from entering the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau, state