- July 24, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
China has issued sanctions on former Commerce Secretary Wilbur RossWilbur Louis RossDOJ won’t prosecute Wilbur Ross after watchdog found he gave false testimony Commerce Department unit gathered intel on employees, census critics: report Former Trump officials find tough job market MORE and other Americans, retaliating against the Biden administration’s warning about doing business in Hong Kong.
Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry, said Friday that the U.S. “concocted” the advisory to “groundlessly smear Hong Kong’s business environment, and illegally imposed sanctions on several officials of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong SAR [Special Administrative Region].”
“These acts gravely violate international law and basic norms governing international relations, and severely interfere in China’s internal affairs. China firmly opposes and strongly condemns this,” Lijian said.
The move…
