US sanctioned 24 Chinese regime officials for undermining Hong Kong’s autonomy

The United States Department of State has sanctioned 24 officials of the Chinese regime in response to the country “further undermining the autonomy, rights and freedoms promised to people in Hong Kong.”

This was asserted this Tuesday by the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, in a publication on his Twitter profile in which he specified that the 24 officials are included under the Hong Kong Autonomy Law, a legislation, promoted by the Administration of Donald Trump, which allows the imposition of sanctions against officials, companies and banks in China.

Specifically, they are included in a report as they are considered people who “contribute materially to or have attempted to materially contribute to China’s failure to meet its obligations under the Sino-British Joint Declaration or the Hong Kong Basic Law”.

Blinken, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, has determined that these people are making this contribution and has therefore included them in the report, with which now any foreign company that carries out significant transactions with them will be sanctioned by the United States.

Those sanctioned are the 25-person Chinese Communist Party elite Politburo member and senior vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, Wang Chen., and the head of the Department of Labor of the United Front of the Chinese Communist Party, You Quan.

Asimismo, los vicepresidentes del Comité Permanente de la Asamblea Popular Nacional Cao Jianming, Zhang Chunxian, Shen Yueyu, Ji Bingxuan, Arken Imirbaki, Wang Exiang,Chen Zhu, Wang Dongming, Padma Choling, Ding Zhongli, Hao Mingjin, Cai Dafeng y Wu Weihua .

Also included are the deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Bureau, Deng Zhonghua; to the deputy of the Office for the Safeguarding of National Security (NSD) of the Central Government in Hong Kong Li Jiangzhou; to the Deputy Commissioner of the Hong Kong Police and Head of the National Security Division Edwina Lay, and to the superintendent of the same body Li Kwai-Wah.

Lastly, there are the director of the NSD, Frederic Choi Ching-Pang; Deputy Commissioners in the NSD Kelvin Kong Hok Lai and Andrew Kai Kai Yan; Hong Kong’s delegate to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, Tam Yiu-Chung, and the deputy of the Central Government National Security Safeguard Office in Hong Kong, Sun Wenqing, known as Sun Qingye.