US Should Sanction the CCP to Support Hongkongers

The Chinese regime on May 28 passed a draft resolution on a national security law for Hong Kong, leading the United States to consider revoking Hong Kong's preferential trading status and sanctioning China. Experts believe that imposing tough sanctions on Chinese and Hong Kong officials involved in human rights abuses in the city can have a deterrent effect. Experts believe the United States have the upper hand in terms of sanctioning the CCP. The so-called “national security law” would ban acts and activities in connection to secession, subversion, and terrorism, as well as activities related to foreign interference. Moreover, Beijing’s security agencies would be allowed to set up operations in Hong Kong. White House National Security Adviser Robert C. O’Brien warned on May 24 that Washington will likely sanction the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) if it pushes through the Hong Kong National Security Law, making Hong Kong lose its special status.