Liaison office director says US sanctions 'futile'
HONG KONG - Luo Huining, director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), said on Saturday that the so-called US sanctions on him are futile, as he has no assets abroad.
Luo made the remarks in response to the so-called sanctions imposed on him by the US Department of Treasury.
"Being listed by the United States on the sanctions list just shows that I have done what I should do for my country and Hong Kong. I don't have a penny of assets abroad. Isn't it a waste of effort to impose 'sanctions'?" Luo said.
"Maybe I should send Mr Donald Trump $100 so that he can have the so-called 'asset freeze'," he said.
A spokesperson for the office on Saturday firmly opposed and strongly condemned the so-called US sanctions against heads of Chinese government agencies responsible for Hong Kong affairs and officials of the HKSAR.
"We will never be afraid of any bullying," a spokesperson for the office said, adding that if the United States thinks that the so-called sanctions can make Chinese people compromise and concede, it is in vain and what it did is an anachronism and miscalculation.
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