Jan. 23, 2021 - Epoch Times
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| China announced sanctions against outgoing Trump officials on the day President Donald Trump left office. | |
| But China expert Ge Bidong mocked Beijing's move, saying it was like a child's play of vengeance. | |
| As President Donald Trump and the First Lady were leaving the White House and Joe Biden was taking the presidential oath, The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced sanctions on 28 members of the Trump administration, claiming that they had interfered in China's internal affairs. | |
| As a result, these officials and their immediate family members are prohibited from entering China, Hong Kong and Macau. | |
| In addition, companies and institutions associated with them are restricted from doing business with China. | |
| The 28 ex-officials sanctioned included Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro, National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien, and former White House aide Steve Bannon. | |
| Chinese netizens left many comments mocking the Chinese authorities. | |
| Why do you sanction ex-officials serving the previous government? | |
| Are you sure they want to take a tourist trip to China or send their children to study in China? | |
| Do they have assets in China's banks? | |
| Someone also said sarcastically, if you really have the power to do whatever you wish, why didn't you sanction them when they were in office? | |
| In the United States, ex-officials are not very different from ordinary citizens. | |
| The new Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, supports Pompeo's declaration of the CCP's genocide crimes. | |
| Sanction the new Secretary of State, if you have the nerve. | |
| It's a very bizarre thing, but I don't know how to do it. | |
| The Chinese authorities did not dare to offend these top officials when they were in office, because they were afraid that if they did so, the U.S. officials would impose even heavier sanctions on China. | |
| Now the CCP is making the move when these officials are leaving their post. | |
| On one hand, the CCP wants to put a show in front of the Chinese people. | |
| On the other hand, the CCP wants to restore its dignity in the international community to a certain extent. | |
| China scholar and commentator Ge Bidong believes the sanctions reflect the CCP's true mindset. | |
| The CCP exercised restraint during Trump's term. | |
| It is like a hungry wolf. | |
| It would hide itself and keep quiet when you have a big stick in your hand. | |
| When you put down your stick, turn around and leave, it will start barking fiercely. | |
| Now they are showing their wild joy, as if saying, finally, you are leaving, you no longer have the power to counter me. | |
| To an even greater extent, they are also showing their shamelessness. | |
| Now you have lost your political power. | |
| I will bite you with all my might. | |
| The CCP is indeed very happy to see President Trump leave. | |
| China's state media Xinhua News Agency posted a message on its Twitter account saying, Good riddance, Donald Trump. | |
| According to commentator Ge Bidong, this indicates that the Trump administration had truly dealt a heavy blow to the CCP. The CCP knows it well that the sanction has no effects on these U.S. officials. | |
| They have no substantive meaning and are more of a symbolic expression. | |
| The CCP is saying, hey, I can finally hold my head high and swing my fist to you when you have lost your power. | |
| Ge said it's very much like a child's play, making the CCP a laughingstock in the international community. | |
| During the power transition in the United States, the CCP went after a group of outgoing officials. | |
| Such a move lacks diplomatic manners and is akin to that of a hooligan. | |
| People in international society will only find the CCP cynical. | |
| As a state power of a big nation, the CCP would do such an unfitting thing. | |
| I really feel that its days are numbered. | |
| Biden's National Security Council spokeswoman Emily Horne also called the CCP's sanctions unproductive and cynical, and called for a bipartisan US policy to stand up to Beijing. | |
| The CCP couldn't have imagined that US officials usually feel it's a great honor to be sanctioned by a totalitarian regime. | |
| U.S. Senator Marco Rubio was sanctioned by the CCP twice in 2020. | |
| In response, Rubio told Fox News in July 2020, I'm actually proud of it. | |
| Anytime a totalitarian evil regime is against you, you know you're on the right side. | |
| On January 20th, former White House aide Steve Bannon also called the sanctions a badge of honor. | |
| He said he would fight even harder for the Chinese people to help them gain freedom. | |
| Beijing apparently treated the outgoing US officials very differently from the incoming officials. | |
| On January 20th, China's foreign affairs spokeswoman Hua Chunying harshly berated Mike Pompeo at a press conference. | |
| Yet she gently reminded Antony Blinken, the new U.S. Secretary of State, to adopt a right perspective in viewing China and China-U.S. relations. | |
| As a matter of fact, Blinken said on the day before that Trump was right in taking a tougher approach to China, and he agreed to identify China's human rights violations in Xinjiang as genocide and crimes against humanity. | |
| In comparison, the US has sanctioned current CCP officials. | |
| For instance, on January 15, Mike Pompeo announced sanctions against six Chinese and Hong Kong officials linked to Hong Kong mass arrests, including the Minister of China's United Front Work Department, Yu Chuan. | |
| On December 7, 14 Chinese high-ranking officials were sanctioned over the Hong Kong crackdown. | |
| On August 7, the Trump administration sanctioned Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam and other government officials. |
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