Beijing sanctioned two Americans in retaliation for U.S. measures against Chinese officials over human rights abuses earlier this month.
The Chinese foreign ministry announced an order on Dec. 23 targeting Miles Yu, the principal China policy adviser to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Todd Stein, the deputy director at the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China, an influential congressional advisory body. The ministry claimed that the two had “acted egregiously on Tibet- and other China-related issues.”
The ministry described the action as a response to what it described as “illegal sanctions” leveled by Washington on Chinese officials over Tibet on Dec. 9, the eve of Human Rights Day….