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HONG KONG – The Workplace of the Commissioner of China’s International Affairs Ministry within the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area on Saturday stated it firmly upholds and helps the anti-foreign sanctions regulation.
The regulation was adopted on the closing assembly of a session of the Standing Committee of the Nationwide Individuals’s Congress of China on Thursday.
A spokesperson for the commissioner’s workplace made the remarks in response to media inquiries in regards to the workplace’s view on the regulation.
The regulation is an pressing necessity with a view to counter the hegemonism and energy politics of some Western international locations, the spokesperson stated.
The regulation can also be an pressing necessity to safeguard China’s nationwide sovereignty, safety and improvement pursuits, and to coordinate each the home and overseas-related rule-of-law, including that the laws has vital sensible and long-term significance, the spokesperson stated.
For a very long time, some Western international locations interfered in China’s inside affairs by imposing unlawful sanctions on associated state organs, organizations and people on the pretext of upholding democracy and human rights, with the purpose to curb China’s improvement, which is a critical violation of worldwide regulation and the essential norms governing worldwide relations, the spokesperson stated.
With regards to worldwide widespread apply, China has formulated and applied the anti-foreign sanctions regulation, aiming at safeguarding China’s sovereignty, safety, and improvement pursuits, and defending the lawful rights and pursuits of the Chinese language folks and organizations, the spokesperson stated.
The spokesperson stated the countermeasures stipulated within the regulation are primarily totally different from the “unilateral sanctions” and hegemonic behaviors by some Western international locations, because the regulation doesn’t goal any particular nation however solely goals at an especially minority of international entities and people damaging China’s sovereignty, safety and improvement pursuits.
Fairly than hampering the authorized operation of international corporations, the regulation will facilitate China’s additional opening-up, the spokesperson stated.
China will as all the time welcome international companies, present them with a predictable authorized atmosphere and a secure enterprise atmosphere, and defend their authentic rights and pursuits, the spokesperson stated.
The spokesperson stated any exterior interference in China’s inside affairs will likely be hit again by the Chinese language folks together with Hong Kong compatriots, and any try to break China’s sovereignty, safety and improvement pursuits by unlawful unilateral sanctions and hegemonic actions is doomed to fail.