Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, called on the President to speak out, saying last week that"the world should hear from him directly that the United States stands with" the protesters.
"If the US insists on going down this wrong path, China will take strong countermeasures," ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a briefing on Thursday in Beijing. The new US law comes just as Washington and Beijing have shown signs of working toward what the White House calls a"phase-one" deal to ease the trade war.
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