Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday announced sanctions on Yu Maochun, known as Miles Yu in the US, and Todd Stein as countermeasures to the illegal US sanctions of two Chinese officials on so-called human rights issues related to China’s Xizang region.
On December 9, the US sanctioned two Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses in Xizang. In response, China said the sanctions were illegal and seriously harmed China-US relations.
Yu has reportedly played an important role in Washington’s new Cold War against China. Todd Stein, deputy staff director of the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China, is also director of “Government Relations at the International Campaign for Tibet” and has been actively pushing bills targeting China’s Xizang region.
China will freeze all Chinese assets of both Yu and Stein, and ban any organization or individual within China from engaging with them. Both men and their immediate family members are also banned from entering China, according to the Foreign Ministry statement.
The order, which takes effect from Friday, was signed by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
(Global Times)
