in terms of financial transactions, in terms of mainland china, because it was a free society, it clearly isn t any more. but rachel, the key thing that i say is that we have to acknowledge, as americans, that we have not prioritized human rights in our relationship with china. we have prioritized the chinese communist party has taken that signal. and when i say we i don t just mean the u.s. government. i mean u.s. companies that have swallowed some pretty difficult things in or to be in that chinese market. the u.s. entertainment industry, you had some john cena apologizing to the chinese government, he had said something about taiwan. you have the nba games pulled off of cctv, the general manager swede supported. in our diplomacy, our economic policy, is going to be our values. because thus far, if we re
this last week, the administration put out a warning to u.s. companies advising american companies that if they are doing business in hong kong, the political climate is changing their to make it, basically, unsafe or commerce. and also unsafe, period. that warning went out from the biden administration to u.s. businesses last week. china retaliated against that warning today by putting sanctions, chinese sanctions, on individual americans. specifically, they sanctioned wait one? they sanctioned wilbur ross? i think maybe they don t know wilbur ross is a commerce is not calmer sick or tearing more. he was commerce accra terry under trump but he s been gone since trump maybe hong kong authorities cannot get good news anymore. they don t get equality journalism anymore. so they don t know that wilbur ross has been gone since january. sure? why not? target your sanctions at him.