US urged to revoke visa restrictions

The US should revoke its visa restrictions on Chinese officials immediately, or China will react with reciprocal countermeasures, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on March 22.

Wang made the remark at a daily news conference after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that the US is imposing visa restrictions on Chinese officials who it believes to be involved in “repressing” religious people and ethnic group members.

Wang said the statement violates international law and basic rules for international relations, and is brutal interference in China’s domestic affairs.

The US slandered China, and suppressed Chinese officials groundlessly with the statement “filled with ideological bias and political lies”, Wang said.