Chinese President Xi Jinping’The government sanctioned two Americans US sanctions retaliated against two Chinese officials for human rights abuses in Tibet,

What happened: The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced sanctions against historians on Friday Yu Maochunknown as Miles Yu in the US and death stonean employee of the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

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According to an order signed by the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, The sanction goes into effect on Friday, and Beijing will freeze all of Yu and Stein’s Chinese assets and ban any organization or individual in the country from dealing with them.

Yu and Stein and their family members are also banned from entering China.

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China’s official mouthpiece, the Global Times, reported that Yu has played an important role in Washington’s new Cold War against China. Stein, who is director of the Government Relations department at the International Campaign for Tibet, has actively campaigned for bills targeting China’s Xizang Autonomous Region.

Last week China criticized the US for imposing sanctions on two senior Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses in Tibet, which it denies.

The government rejected the allegations applied strict policies to suppress ethnic dissent and control religious activities in the region and called US sanctions illegal, seriously damaging US-China relations.

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