The Biden administration imposed visa restrictions on some Chinese officials for alleged human-rights abuses, while Beijing sanctioned six US companies for involvement in an arms sale to Taiwan.
Washington’s move was linked to the “repression of marginalized religious and ethnic communities,” the State Department said in a statement on Friday, without identifying the officials or giving details. A spokesman cited “genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the erosion of fundamental freedoms in Hong Kong, persistent human rights abuses in Tibet.”
Separately, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statementon Friday that the US companies’