China bars four US NGO workers from entry in Hong Kong tit-for-tat
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China will bar four people working for American NGOs from entering the country as Washington and Beijing continue their tit-for-tat over Hong Kong.
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Monday that the four people would be banned from entering China, including Hong Kong and Macau, for having “performed badly” over Hong Kong affairs.
The four are: John Knaus, senior director for Asia at the National Endowment for Democracy; and Manpreet Singh Anand, regional director for Asia-Pacific programmes at the National Democratic Institute, as well as Crystal Rosario and Kelvin Sit Tak-o who work for the NDI’s Hong Kong branch.
Those four are Deng Zhonghua, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office; deputy commissioner Edwina Lau Chi-wai and Senior Superintendent Li Kwai-wah of the Hong Kong police’s national security division; and Li Jiangzhou from the newly established Office for Safeguarding National Security.
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