U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is among the GOP senators that China said it planned to sanction.
Photo: andrew harnik/press poolTAIPEI—China’s Foreign Ministry on Monday said it planned to impose corresponding sanctions on several senior GOP figures in retaliation for penalties the Trump administration imposed last week on senior Chinese officials accused of carrying out human-rights abuses against Turkic Muslims in the remote Xinjiang region.
The targeted Republicans include U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas, Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey and former Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, now serving as the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. All four are hawkish on China.
The U.S. sanctions, imposed Thursday on Xinjiang’s Communist Party boss Chen Quanguo and others, ban travel to the U.S. and access to the U.S. financial system.
Beijing also planned to impose sanctions on the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, co-chaired by Mr. Rubio, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying in a regular press briefing.
“We urge the U.S. to immediately withdraw its wrong decisions, stop interfering in China’s internal affairs or undermining China’s interests,” Ms. Hua said. “We will make further reactions based on the development of the situation.”
Ms. Hua offered very few details of what China’s countermeasures would entail, including whether they would apply to all members of the commission, deny use of China’s closed financial system, or involve visa bans to all or part of China.
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Sens. Rubio and Cruz separately tweeted their disdain for Beijing’s actions. Mr. Cruz, in a statement, condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s mass detention of Uighur minorities in Xinjiang as “egregious human rights atrocities that cannot be tolerated” and said the sanctions against him and his colleagues show that the party “is terrified and lashing out.”
Mr. Rubio, in an opinion piece published Monday on the RealClearPolitics political news site, called on Washington to protect U.S. interests in Hong Kong, following Beijing’s imposition of a strict national security law in the territory, and extend visa bans to include “the Hong Kong elite who traded away their city’s freedom.”
—Kate O’Keeffe contributed to this article.
Write to Josh Chin at josh.chin@wsj.com
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