After the Foreign Ministry stated that China would take countermeasures following the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act being signed into US law last week, many wondered what those might be. They have not had to wait long to find out.

China announced on Monday that it has suspended its approval for US warships to visit Hong Kong and imposed sanctions on US NGOs, such as the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the International Republican Institute, and Freedom House, among others, which have acted “badly” by helping to incite the unrest in the special administrative region.

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