US threat to impose sanctions on HK ironic: Cuban Ambassador to China
2020-06-13 07:40:45 source:Global Times
June 13, 2020
The US officials' threat to impose sanctions on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is another example of threatening other countries with sanctions and imposing its own standards on other countries. The threat is ironic at a time when the US is mired in its own crises of the epidemic and social problems, the Cuban Ambassador to China told the Global Times.
"The world has seen how many deep-seated problems exist inside the US and how the US government treats its people. Even American leaders deny the ideals of democracy and freedom that the country has preached for decades," Ambassador Carlos Miguel Pereira told the Global Times in an exclusive interview on Friday.
Pereira added that the US turns a blind eye to these problems while interfering wantonly in China's Hong Kong affairs.
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