China sanctions de facto Taiwan U.S. envoy, entities over Tsai trip

China announced Friday fresh sanctions against Hsiao Bi-khim, Taiwan's de facto ambassador to the United States, and punitive steps on two American institutes that hosted the island's leader Tsai Ing-wen during her U.S. stopovers as part of her tour of Central American allies.The measures were released after Tsai met with U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday in California, angering Beijing which regards the self-ruled democratic island as its own.A spokesperson of the ruling Communist Party's Taiwan Work Office called Hsiao a "diehard 'Taiwan independence' separ…READ FULL ARTICLE