The US government has restarted sanctions against Chinese and Hong Kong officials over the Hong Kong issue. The latest list of six people on the sanctions list includes a senior official stationed in Hong Kong who was once the vice minister of China's Ministry of State Security. The impact of the US government's new move on overseas Hong Kong advocacy work and the new layout of the US-China game have become the focus of attention.
On Monday (March 31st) US time, the U.S. State Department submitted a Hong Kong Policy Act report to the U.S. Congress, explaining how the Hong Kong government used national security laws to carry out cross-border repression such as intimidation and harassment against 19 exiled Hong Kong advocates, including U.S. citizens and residents, and violated human rights and freedom of speech. On the same day, the U.S. State Department announced sanctions against Sonny Au Chi-kwong, Secretary-General of the Hong Kong National Security Commission; Raymond Chak Yee Siu, Commissioner of the Hong Kong Police Force; Dick Chung Chun Wong, Assistant Commissioner of the Hong Kong National Security Department, Margaret Wing Lan Chiu, Assistant Commissioner of the National Security Department; Paul Ting Kwok Lam, Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong, and Dong Jingwei, Director of the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the People's Republic of China in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, a total of six officials from the Hong Kong government and China stationed in Hong Kong, and their properties and funds in the United States will be frozen.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that the sanctions demonstrate the Trump administration's determination and commitment to hold accountable those who deprive the people of Hong Kong of their rights and freedoms and engage in transnational repression on U.S. territory.