{"id":148044,"date":"2025-04-21T19:39:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=148044"},"modified":"2025-04-22T15:58:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T11:58:55","slug":"china-imposes-sanctions-on-us-congress-members-government-officials-and-ngo-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/148044\/","title":{"rendered":"China imposes sanctions on US Congress members, government officials and NGO leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>China has imposed sanctions on some U.S. congress members, government officials as well as heads of non-governmental organizations for &ldquo;egregious behavior on Hong Kong-related issues&rdquo;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/china-sanctions-us-congress-members-officials-ngo-heads-2025-04-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes, referring to China&rsquo;s Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Any wrong action taken by the U.S. side on the Hong Kong-related issue will be met with resolute and reciprocal counteraction by the Chinese side,&rdquo; Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun said.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions come in response to the U.S. sanctioning six Chinese and Hong Kong officials last month, which, according to Guo, China &ldquo;strongly condemns.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has imposed sanctions on some U.S. congress members, government officials as well as heads of non-governmental organizations for &ldquo;egregious behavior on Hong Kong-related issues&rdquo;, Reuters writes, referring to China&rsquo;s Foreign Ministry. &ldquo;Any wrong action taken by the U.S. side on the Hong Kong-related issue will be met with resolute and reciprocal counteraction by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":147897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}