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China’s ‘two sessions’ 2023: new laws to counter foreign sanctions planned

  • Chinese officials and firms have been hit by Western sanctions in recent years, with the Ukraine war threatening to escalate matters further
  • A draft law unveiled last year said countermeasures would be taken if the country’s key interests were threatened

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The plans were announced ahead of the meeting of the national legislature in Beijing. Photo: Reuters

China will use legal means to counter the impact of foreign sanctions, according to a spokesman for the country’s legislature.

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Wang Chao, a spokesman for the National People’s Congress, said on Saturday that the parliament has already started working on foreign policy legislation.

Beijing is focusing more on international legal studies to advance its interests internationally as it comes under increasing sanctions pressure from the United States and Europe.
Chinese firms have already been sanctioned for their ties with Russia and other grounds such as the surveillance of ethnic minorities and for facilitating Iran’s energy trade in violation of US restrictions.
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“Some countries have kept abusing the extraterritorial application of their domestic laws in violation of international law, with the aim of taking down foreign entities and individuals and serving their own interests.

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