Chinese FM Spox: US Sanctions Deal Heavy Blow to Int'l. politico-economic Order

 

“The previous US administration issued a total of over 3,900 sanction measures, which means the US wields its sanctions stick three times a day on average. According to American media, sanctions have become the US’s foreign policy weapon of choice.” 

 

"Over the past decades, the US has imposed unilateral sanctions on countries including Cuba, Belarus, Syria and Zimbabwe and ratcheted up “maximum pressure” on countries like the DPRK, Iran and Venezuela. Such action is against the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and norms of international law. It deals a heavy blow to the international political and economic order and the global governance system and seriously disrupts the sanctioned countries’ efforts to mobilize resources, grow the economy and improve people’s well-being. It endangers the right to life, challenges the right to self-determination, undermines the right to development, and constitutes persistent, systemic and large-scale violation of human rights," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman added.