China reacted angrily to the measures on Monday, saying it was “detrimental to both sides”.
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Beijing warned Washington of retaliation on Monday after President Donald Trump announced restrictions on Chinese students in the United States to protest a new national security law in Hong Kong.
Trump said on Friday that the United States would ban certain Chinese graduate students and begin to reverse Hong Kong’s special status in customs and other areas, as Beijing goes ahead with a plan to impose security law. controversial.
The President said the Chinese government “was lowering the city’s long standing and very proud status”.
But China reacted angrily to the measures on Monday, saying it was “detrimental to both sides”.
“Any words and actions that harm China’s interests will be the subject of counterattacks from China,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a regular media briefing. , without providing details.
He said Washington’s measures “seriously interfere in China’s internal affairs and undermine US-China relations.”
Chinese parliament approved bills on Thursday that would punish secession, subversion of state power, terrorism and acts that endanger national security, and allow Chinese security agencies to operate openly. Hong Kong.
The move follows seven months of huge and sometimes violent pro-democratic protests in Hong Kong last year.
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