Business Interests: China and Rights Democracy

business interests: Some experts suggested that China should prepare for countermeasures if the bill eventually becomes law, including sanctions against institutions and US officials who act inappropriately on Hong Kong-related issues, as well as a ban on US politicians who back the bill from traveling Hong Kong and the mainland, and an investigation of their business interests in China, according to Global Times China. National People's Congress Foreign Affairs Committee strongly condemned and firmly opposed the US House of Representatives after the later passed the act, for serving its real intent of containing China and inciting troubles in Hong Kong, on the pretext of human rights and democracy. Aside from being condemned by authorities of China, the US move was also criticized by Hong Kong lawmakers, legal professionals and scholars from the mainland and Hong Kong. It also slammed the lower house of the US Congress for paying a blind eye to the acts of criminality inflicted by radical anti-government activists and rioters. These are core values of Hong Kong that we are making efforts to safeguard. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said at a press conference on Wednesday after she delivered the 2019 policy address that We don't need other countries to tell us what human rights, democracy or freedom is. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.