The White House has decided it will bar Hong Kong’s top government official from attending a major economic summit in the United States this fall, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
Beijing had indicated as recently as June that it expected the United States, as the summit’s host, to invite Lee. Hong Kong has been a member of APEC since 1991, six years before Britain handed the territory back to China. Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said then that Washington had “undertaken to fulfill its obligation, follow relevant rules and procedures of APEC, and facilitate the participation of all representatives.
“Rather than picking a fight with China on this purely symbolic issue,” Tong said, “the administration should lay out a set of expectations, that Hong Kong must participate from the perspective of what’s good for the Hong Kong economy and the regional economy, and speak with a voice of autonomy rather than perform as a rhetorical puppet of the People’s Republic of China.
U.S. people and entities, from banks to airlines to government officials, generally are barred from interacting with sanctioned individuals on the Treasury Department’s Specially Designated Nationals list. That makes entry into the United States difficult unless a waiver is granted.
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