China levies sanctions in response to the US-Taiwan summit

The Chinese government has imposed sanctions on America’s Hudson Institute and Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as well as executives from the two organizations, after they hosted Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen during her recent trip to the US. Beijing has also taken measures against Taiwan’s envoy to Washington. The Chinese Foreign Ministry stated that the organizations and individuals were being sanctioned for their roles in the meeting between Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy earlier this week in California. Several leading executives from the two entities, including Hudson Institute officials Sarah May Stern and John Walters, and Joanne Drake of the Reagan Library, will be denied Chinese visas and will have any assets frozen that they may own in the country. Sanctions were also placed on two more organizations, one from Taiwan and the other from the US, as well as Taipei’s representative in America, Hsiao Bi-khim. Tsai thanked Washington for its commitment to protecting Taiwan’s “way of life,” while the US official stressed the importance of relations between Washington and Taipei.