China has announced sanctions against a Canadian parliamentarian, a Canadian parliamentary subcommittee, and U.S. officials in response to sanctions announced by Canada and the United States against individuals and entities involved in rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region. China’s sanctions target Canadian MP Michael Chong, the Conservative Party’s foreign affairs critic; Gayle Manchin, chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF); Tony Perkins, vice chair of USCIRF; and Canada’s parliamentary Subcommittee on International Human Rights. In a tweet, Chong said if China’s sanctions are in response to his criticism of China’s rights abuses, he’ll “wear it as a badge of honour.” “We’ve got a duty to call out China for its crackdown in #HongKong & its genocide of #Uyghurs. We who live freely in democracies under the rule of law must speak for the voiceless,” he said. China’s sanctions prohibit the targeted individuals from entering China and doing business …