US Republican Senators Marco Rubio (left) and Ted Cruz
The recent Chinese sanctions on two warmongering members of the US Congress and other anti-Chinese officials are “well-deserved,” says an American political commentator.
Charles Dunaway made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday after Beijing slapped sanctions on US officials, including two senators, in response to Washington’s recent bans against senior Chinese officials over allegations of mistreating the Uighur Muslim community in the western Xinjiang region.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said during a daily briefing on Monday that Beijing had sanctioned four US officials, including Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
She also unveiled “corresponding sanctions” against US Representative Chris Smith, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
Dunaway said that “Chinese sanctions on [two] of the most noxious warmongers in the US Congress and other anti-Chinese officials are well deserved. US Secretary State Mike Pompeo claimed to be levying sanctions on Chinese Communist Party officials because of the alleged detention of millions of Uighurs in Xinjiang Province by the Chinese government.”
“The hypocrisy of these charges is unparalleled. China's Society for Human Rights Studies released a report last week noting that immigration arrests on the southern border in the US totaled 850,000, most of whom suffered rough, insulting treatment and were housed in inadequate, overcrowded prison camps,” he said.
“So, tit for tat sanctions come as the US is leaving the world and new infections and deaths from the novel coronavirus showing its utter weakness and inability to control the disease as China has done,” he added.
“At a time when global cooperation will clearly save lives both in the US and elsewhere, the US government is withdrawing from the World Health Organization, accusing China of deliberately infecting the world and neglecting to impose restrictions on its own people, they could slow the spread of the disease,” he stated.
“The counter sanctions move by the Chinese government is not only appropriate, it shows the weakness in the inability of the United States to claim a leadership role in the world, particularly on human rights, as Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Charlie Johns said last week, ‘We are tired of hearing your nonsense.’ He called the US the world's biggest troublemaker and said that bomb pales. Actions revealed US hypocrisy, arrogance and ignorance to the world. It's hard to disagree,” he concluded.
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