[How foreign media see] US sanctions 11 Chinese and Hong Kong officials, British media: limited impact but highly symbolic

Foreign Media Digest

Author: Cheng Yihua

2020-08-08 15:51

The US Treasury Department announced on August 7 sanctions against 11 Chinese and Hong Kong officials, including Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, Secretary of Justice Zheng Ruohua and others. The incident has also attracted widespread international attention. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) analyzed that the impact of the sanctions is limited but highly symbolic. It describes that China and the United States are heading towards a painful "divorce". Some experts also believe that the incident shows that the situation in China and the United States is an escalation without a clear termination track. .

In the sanctions imposed by the United States on 11 Chinese and Hong Kong officials this time, it is proposed to freeze the assets of these officials in the United States and prohibit Americans from doing business with them. BBC analysis said that if these officials have no financial interests in the United States and no plan to go to the United States, their actual personal impact will be limited. However, the US's move is highly symbolic and Hong Kong has become the main point of contention between China and the United States.

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The article also pointed out that China and the United States are heading toward a painful divorce. The Trump administration's tough attitude toward China is on the one hand to encourage voters, and on the other hand, the White House's desire to revise China's policies that they consider unfavorable to the United States.

CNN quoted Julia Friedlander, a senior researcher on transatlantic economic relations at the Atlantic Council, a US think tank, as saying that the US sanctions against Carrie Lam is a very obvious escalation, plus Trang She believes that the general government’s other recent policies towards China are “escalation with no clear end trajectory” (escalation with no clear end trajectory)

As for Singapore’s “Straits Times” report, Wu Muluan, associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, believes that the sanctions will have little impact on personal politics and finances, but he pointed out that if the United States continues to target middle-level officials involved in Hong Kong affairs, Will bring more damage.

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