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My grandmother stood up to the Chinese Communist Party. President Joe Biden should too.
Hong Kong activists and Uighur minorities are under assault from Chinese President Xi Jinping s old communist playbook. America can come to their aid.
Rachel Chiu
Opinion contributor
Seventy-one years ago, my grandmother was beaten, enslaved and nearly killed by the Chinese Communist Party. China continues to do the same thing today and America should offer its new victims refuge.
Tension is already brewing between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping. During last month s Davos Agenda conference, Xi condemned the “arrogant isolationism” of the Trump era and cautioned that a “cold war, hot war, trade war, or tech war” would lead to “division and even confrontation.” This is the oldest play in China’s Communist handbook, which values economic and social power above all else.
[co-author: Stephanie Cheung]
INTRODUCTION
Following our recent Client Alert published in October 2020 on the release of the Section 5(a) Report under the Hong Kong Autonomy Act of 2020 (“
HKAA”), there have now been some further updates in relation to U.S. sanctions affecting parties in Hong Kong and China which we discuss below.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IDENTIFIES FOUR ADDITIONAL CHINESE ENTITIES AS MILITARY COMPANIES
CCMC”). This list is required to be compiled and reported to the U.S. Congress. In addition to the companies already on the list from designations in June and August of this year, the four companies added in December are (i) high-tech state-owned enterprise group, China Construction Technology Co. Ltd. (CCTC); (ii) an engineering consulting business, China International Engineering Consulting Corp. (CIECC); (iii) China’s top chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC); and (iv) China’s largest offshore oil and gas producer, China Natio