The U.S. State Department provocatively announced on March 31 that it is sanctioning six Beijing and Hong Kong authorities for “abuses in Hong Kong and the United States.” The statement charges that five of the six were leaders or officials of the Hong Kong government whose actions or policies “have degraded the autonomy of Hong Kong,” for having engaged in “transnational repression.” This refers specifically to Beijing and Hong Kong’s response to the terror-filled protests carried out in 2019-2020 by violent “pro-democracy” rioters in Hong Kong, behind which were the British hand and the National Endowment for Democracy’s (NED) “color revolution” advocates, whose target was the destabilization of China itself.
See Mike Billington’s article “Hong Kong: Color Revolution Targeting All of China,” in the Sept. 13, 2019 issue of EIR. The enactment of Hong Kong’s National Security Law in 2023 came in response to these protests to protect and maintain Hong Kong’s stability, but it was attacked by Washington as an assault on the human rights and freedom of the violent protesters. China’s Foreign Ministry minced no words in responding to the State Department’s provocation (see separate report.