State Secretary Rubio says that Beijing ‘promises’ Hong Kong residents, deprived them of their freedom.
The United States has banned six Chinese and Hong Kong officials to punish China for the ongoing rift on the advocates of democracy at the financial center, which was returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
The US State Department announced sanctions on Monday. They target major figures, including the secretary of Hong Kong Police Commissioner Raymond Siu Chak-Yay and Justice Paul Lam, who plays “intimidation, silence and 19 supporters attempts to harass and disturb the activists of democracy.
US State Secretary Marco Rubio said on X that Beijing attached to “Break his promise”, “deprive the Hong Kongs of Freedom”, and “attached to the transnational repression acts that target activists on American soil”.
,@StatedeptThe report of the latest Hong Kong Policy Act shows that Beijing has broken its promises from the people of Hong Kong. The United States is banning six persons to reduce Hong Kong’s autonomy, deprive Hong Kongs of freedom, and in …
– Secretary Marco Rubio (@Secrubio) 31 March, 2025
The ban, marked a rarely marked by the administration of President Donald Trump, will block any interest organized by six individuals in the US and generally criminalize financial transactions with them under the US law.
He also targets Dong Jingewei, a former senior officer of China’s Chief Citizen Intelligence Agency, who is now director of Beijing’s office to protect national security in Hong Kong; Sunny AU with senior security and police officers; Dick Wong; And Margaret Chiu.
‘Aggressive’ crack
Beijing promised a separate system for Hong Kong when Britain assigned a financial center in 1997.
But after this it went to start the major cracks on dissatisfaction, implemented Drakeian National Security Rules after the large and many times disastrous protests in favor of democracy shed the city in 2019.
The report of the latest Hong Kong Policy Act of the State Department published on Monday pointed to two laws-Beizing-2020 used to protect the National Security Act and the National Security Ordinance of the Hong Kong government, used for “aggressively” pro-decorary and media freedom advocates.
The targets included two former chief editor-in-chief of now-Difunction Independent News Outlet Stand News-Chung Pui-Kuen and Patrick Lam-Joe went to jail on charges of conspiracy to publish traitors last year.
Officials in Chinese and Hong Kong said the National Security Act-which punishes the sabotage, has brought stability to the Chinese-controlled sector since the protest of life-2019 in prison with foreign forces, collusion with foreign forces and terrorism.
Six approved officers were targeted as an American law which was champion Hong Kong democracy.
Hong Kong top officer, CEO John Lee, is already under US sanctions.
