{"id":15994,"date":"2018-09-22T18:22:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T18:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15994"},"modified":"2018-09-22T18:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T18:22:20","slug":"china-summons-us-ambassador-over-military-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15994","title":{"rendered":"China summons US ambassador over military sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

China<\/a> summoned the United States ambassador on Saturday after the US<\/a> imposed sanctions on a branch of its military, according to Chinese state media.<\/p>\n

The announcement came a day after China “strongly urged” the US to cancel the sanctions<\/a> or “bear the consequences”.<\/p>\n

The dispute has increased tensions between Washington and Beijing, amid a brewing trade war between the two world powers.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

What’s the endgame in the US-China trade war? | Counting the Cost<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

China’s Deputy Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang summoned Ambassador Terry Branstad and “lodged solemn representations” in relation to the sanctions, state media reported.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Washington imposed sanctions on the Equipment Development Department (EED) of the Chinese defence ministry, and its director Li Shangfu, over the purchase of missiles and fighter jets from Russia.<\/p>\n

The sanctions triggered a visa ban and prohibited the EED and its director from conducting transactions with the US financial system.<\/p>\n

The US state department said the Chinese procurement of S-400 surface-to-air missiles and Sukhoi SU-35 jets from Russia breached a US sanctions law targeting Russia for its alleged meddling in the 2016 US election and its activities in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

US officials said the imposition of penalties against China was the first time a third-party country was punished under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, the sanctions law passed in 2017.<\/p>\n

The Chinese military denounced the sanctions on Saturday, expressing “strong indignation and resolute opposition”, a defence ministry spokesperson told state-run news agency Xinhua<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The US move was “a flagrant breach of basic rules of international relations” and a “stark show of hegemonism”.<\/p>\n

Russia also protested the sanctions, warning that Washington was “playing with fire” and accusing the United States of trying to squeeze Russia out of the global arms market.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration also added 33 people and entities associated with the Russian military and intelligence services to a blacklist. Twenty-eight of the new names have been indicted by US special counsel Robert Mueller<\/a>, who is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n

Are US Sanctions Realigning Global Alliances?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n

\n SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China summoned the United States ambassador on Saturday after the US imposed sanctions on a branch of its military, according to Chinese state media. The announcement came a day after China “strongly urged” the US to cancel the sanctions or “bear the consequences”. The dispute has increased tensions between Washington and Beijing, amid a brewing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}