China Summons US Diplomat Over NPCSC Sanctions
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2020-12-08 HKT 20:36
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China has summoned the acting top US diplomat in Beijing to protest about US sanctions on 14 Chinese officials over Hong Kong, and vowed to take "reciprocal" counter measures.
China's foreign ministry said on its website on Tuesday that Chinese vice foreign minister Zheng Zeguang had summoned the acting representative in the US embassy to express "solemn protest and strong condemnation".
He also said that Beijing would take "reciprocal" counter measures.
The United States on Monday imposed financial sanctions and a travel ban on all 14 vice-chairpersons of China's National People's Congress Standing Committee over their role in adopting a national security law for Hong Kong and Beijing's disqualification last month of four elected opposition legislators in Hong Kong. (Reuters)
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