CHINA COUNTER-SANCTIONS 10 EU INDIVIDUALS AND 4 ENTITIES

Within hours of EU sanctions on 4 Chinese officials and 1 Xinjiang entity, China counter-sanctioned 10 EU individuals including 5 EU parliamentarians and serial liar Adrian Zenz. The 4 entities sanctioned include Political and Security Committee of the Council of the European Union and Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament.

The individuals concerned and their families are prohibited from entering the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao of China. They and companies and institutions associated with them are also restricted from doing business with China.

It's a political farce by Brussels to please their US Empire masters, pacify neoliberals and Sinophobes within EU, and keep up EU's pretenses as a human rights defender. EU member states and politicians need to look in the mirror, reflect and repent on their own poor human rights record and crimes against humanity abroad, from NATO bombing and balkanisstion of former Yugoslavia, destruction of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, not to mention centuries of predatory, rapacious and barbaric colonization of Africa, Asia and Latin America. They are war criminals and absolute hypocrites. 

Unlike sanctions imposed on China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen incident, this time Brussels dare not touch economic issues. They know Beijing could tear up the recently concluded Investment Deal, which EU needs it more than China does.

China's Foreign Ministry Statement :

// European Union (EU) imposed unilateral sanctions on relevant Chinese individuals and entity on March 22, citing the so-called human rights issues in Xinjiang. This move, based on nothing but lies and disinformation, disregards and distorts facts, grossly interferes in China's internal affairs, flagrantly breaches international law and basic norms governing international relations, and severely undermines China-EU relations. China firmly opposes and strongly condemns this.

The Chinese government is firmly determined to safeguard national sovereignty, security and development interests. The Chinese side decides to sanction the following ten individuals and four entities on the EU side that severely harm China's sovereignty and interests and maliciously spread lies and disinformation: Reinhard Butikofer, Michael Gahler, Raphaël Glucksmann, Ilhan Kyuchyuk and Miriam Lexmann of the European Parliament, Sjoerd Wiemer Sjoerdsma of the Dutch Parliament, Samuel Cogolati of the Belgian Federal Parliament, Dovile Sakaliene of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, German scholar Adrian Zenz, Swedish scholar Björn Jerdén, Political and Security Committee of the Council of the European Union, Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament, the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Germany, and the Alliance of Democracies Foundation in Denmark. The individuals concerned and their families are prohibited from entering the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao of China. They and companies and institutions associated with them are also restricted from doing business with China.

The Chinese side urges the EU side to reflect on itself, face squarely the severity of its mistake and redress it. It must stop lecturing others on human rights and interfering in their internal affairs. It must end the hypocritical practice of double standards and stop going further down the wrong path. Otherwise, China will resolutely make further reactions. //