China announced on Saturday sanctions against three personalities and one entity from Canada and the United States, in response to sanctions imposed earlier this week by these countries in the face of the treatment of its Uyghur minority.
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Two members of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, Gayle Manchin and Tony Perkins, as well as Canadian MP Michael Chong and a Canadian parliamentary commission on human rights are barred from entering mainland China, Hong Kong and in Macao, the Chinese foreign ministry said.
The Canadian Conservative MP reacted on Twitter, claiming to consider the Chinese sanction as an “honorary distinction”.