Four British organisations and nine individuals have been blacklisted by China in response to sanctions by the United Kingdom
As News Front previously reported, Western countries have launched a campaign of pressure on China under the pretext of mistreatment of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.
After the British imposed anti-Chinese sanctions in this connection, Beijing called the accusations “lies and disinformation”. Now the Chinese Foreign Ministry is imposing retaliatory restrictive measures against four organisations and nine individuals, including former Conservative Party leader Ian Duncan Smith and the Conservative Party’s own Human Rights Commission.
Also blacklisted were chairman of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee Tom Tugendhat, MPs Neil O’Brien, Nus Ghani and Tim Lawton, members of the House of Lords David Alton and Helena Kennedy, lawyer Geoffrey Nays and Newcastle University Uighur expert Joan Nicola Smith Finley. China Research Group, the Uyghur Tribunal and Essex Court Chambers were also among the sanctioned organisations.
Individuals on the blacklist, as well as their immediate family members, are now banned from entering China, the Foreign Ministry said. In addition, Chinese citizens and institutions will be banned from doing business with them.