The communist regime in China is imposing sanctions on four U.S. religious freedom officials, in response to Washington’s efforts to pressure Beijing over human rights abuses in Xinjiang. The sanction targets the chair Nadine Maenza, vice chair Nury Turkel, and two commissioners of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Dec. 21. The measures block their travel to mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau, and freeze any assets within China owned by those individuals, Zhao said. He added that they were “countermeasures” against recent U.S. sanctions, imposed under China’s anti-foreign sanctions law.” The USCIRF did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Epoch Times. The United States on Dec. 10 leveled sanctions against a Chinese company and four current and former officials that are involved in the regime’s oppression of Uyghur and other Muslim minorities in the far-western …