Zero tolerance shown toward interference in internal affairs

In response to the sanctions the United States imposed on two Chinese officials on the grounds of so-called human rights issues in Tibet, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that it had imposed counter sanctions on two US individuals in accordance with China's Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law.

Miles Maochun Yu served as the principal China policy and planning adviser to former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, and Todd Stein was the deputy staff director of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. Both of them have long acted egregiously on Tibet and other China-related issues.

The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Todd Stein and Miles Yu Maochun, along with their close family members, would be banned from entering China, any assets they had in China would be frozen and they would be barred from contact with people or organizations within China.