The measure is aimed at former and current party representatives involved in “undermining” Hong Kong’s autonomy, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday.
The minister did not explain exactly who was to take the punitive measures. Only on Thursday in a video conference of the “German Marshall Fund” Pompeo had pushed for a tougher approach towards China, in which the EU should also participate. It is “a series of collective responses to protect the freedoms that the Chinese Communist Party tries to undermine every day,” said Pompeo.
