BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China said on Wednesday it will impose visa restrictions on U.S. citizens who have engaged in what it called “egregious” behaviour over Tibet, in apparent retaliation against U.S restrictions on Chinese officials.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday the United States would restrict visas for some Chinese officials because Beijing obstructs travel to Tibet by U.S. diplomats, journalists and tourists and “human rights abuses” in the Himalayan region.
The moves come as relations between the United States deteriorate over trade, technology, the coronavirus pandemic and the former British colony of Hong Kong.
The United States “should stop going further down the wrong path to avoid further harming China-U.S. relations and communication and cooperation between the two countries,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters in Beijing.
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