Secretary of state Mike Pompeo speaks in Washington, DC, the US, January 12 2021. Picture: ANDREW HARNIK/REUTERSChina imposed sanctions on former secretary of state Michael Pompeo and other Trump administration officials even as Joe Biden was being inaugurated as president, saying they had made “crazy moves” that harmed US-China ties.
The officials listed were instrumental in shaping the Trump administration’s more confrontational stance towards China, which included a raft of sanctions and a declaration, on its final day, that the government had committed genocide in its Xinjiang region. Also on the list were former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and former National Security Adviser John Bolton.
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