Michael Pompeo
Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage / Bloomberg
Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage / Bloomberg
China has imposed sanctions on former Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and other officials of the Trump administration, even as Joe Biden was inaugurated as president, saying they had made “crazy moves” affecting US-China ties impair.
Former President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Robert O’Brien and his deputy Matt Pottinger, trade adviser Peter Navarro, and the US ambassador to Kelly Craft of the United Nations were also on the list of 28 people approved. statement issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday when the inauguration for Biden takes place. They and their families are forbidden to enter China, Hong Kong or Macau, or to do business with China.
The officials listed were instrumental in shaping the Trump administration’s more confrontational stance toward China, which on the last day included a series of sanctions and a statement that the government had committed genocide in its Xinjiang region. . Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and former national security adviser John Bolton were also on the list.
The officials “planned, promoted and carried out a series of crazy moves that seriously interfered in China’s domestic affairs, undermined China’s interests, insulted the Chinese people and severely disrupted relations between China and the United States,” he said. said the Foreign Ministry in a statement.
Those targeted by China are likely to carry the sanctions in honor. Pompeo, who has competed in a series of tweets against China over the past few days, can boast of his tough stance in a future political campaign.