Raymond Siu 蕭澤頤 commanded Hong Kong's police through the 2019 crackdown. In 2025, the United States sanctioned him for it. This month, he quietly came off the list. Not because he changed, but because of a technicality. He retired the same day the sanctions took effect and has faced no consequence since.
Nothing about the record he left behind has changed. The Trump administration should re-sanction Raymond Siu now. A lapsed technicality should never be mistaken for a clean record.
Original Sanction: https://t.co/ieYZCHh9Bq
Sanction Removal: https://t.co/oWltxsClVH
Paul Lam 林定國 serves as #HongKong's chief prosecutor. In 2025, the United States sanctioned him for it. This month, he quietly came off the list. Not because he changed but because of a technicality. He's still the justice secretary held responsible for developing and implementing the National Security Law.
Nothing about the threat he poses has changed. The Trump administration should re-sanction Paul Lam now. A lapsed technicality should never be mistaken for a clean record.
Original Sanction: https://t.co/ieYZCHgBLS
Sanction Removal: https://t.co/oWltxsBO69
Dick Wong 王忠巡 runs national security policing in #HongKong. In 2025, the United States sanctioned him for it. This month, he quietly came off the list. Not because he changed but because of a technicality. He's still the assistant commissioner overseeing the unit responsible for most arrests and prosecutions under the National Security Law.
Nothing about the threat he poses has changed. The Trump administration should re-sanction Dick Wong now. A lapsed technicality should never be mistaken for a clean record.
Original Sanction: https://t.co/ieYZCHgBLS
Sanction Removal: https://t.co/oWltxsBO69
Seven years ago, Hong Kong citizens were attacked by a group of men dressed in white and armed with batons inside Yuen Long MTR station.
At least 45 people were injured, while police just stood by and allowed the violence to happen.
The attackers were later reported to have links to the notorious 14K triad. Now, some of those same networks appear to have resurfaced in the U.K. Evidence presented during the HKETO spying trial included discussions about involving the 14K triad in similar attacks against Hong Kong activists in Britain.
If triads, Hong Kong police, and their Beijing-backed networks can coordinate across borders, can anywhere truly be safe for Hong Kong activists in exile?
‼️LAST WEEK, THE U.S. QUIETLY REMOVED NINE CHINESE AND HONG KONG OFFICIALS FROM ITS SANCTIONS LIST.
Here's what actually happened.
In July 2020, the Trump administration declared a national emergency over #HongKong under Executive Order 13936, the legal basis for sanctioning officials who dismantled the city's freedoms. That emergency declaration expired on July 14, 2026.
Days later, the Treasury Department removed everyone who had been sanctioned solely under that order.
Officials designated under the Hong Kong Autonomy Act remain sanctioned. But the following nine weren’t — they were delisted simply because the executive order lapsed.
These are the officials who built and enforced Hong Kong's police state — from the police commissioner who oversaw mass arrests during the 2019 protests to the leaders of national security enforcement, prosecutions, and #Beijing's secret national security office, as well as the justice secretary who implemented the National Security Law.
They did nothing to atone for their crimes against Hong Kongers; the paperwork simply expired.
The Trump administration should re-sanction all nine now.
https://t.co/oWltxsClVH
Sonny Au 區志光 runs #HongKong's national security committee. In 2025, the United States sanctioned him for it. This month, he quietly came off the list. Not because he changed, but because of a technicality. He's still the secretary general overseeing enforcement for a body that answers to #Beijing, not Hong Kong.
Nothing about the threat he poses has changed. The Trump administration should re-sanction Sonny Au now. A lapsed technicality should never be mistaken for a clean record.
Original Sanction: https://t.co/ieYZCHgBLS
Sanction Removal: https://t.co/oWltxsBO69
Qiu Hong 仇鸿 helped dismantle #HongKong's democracy. In 2021, the United States sanctioned her for it. This month, she quietly came off the list. Not because she changed but because of a technicality. She's still a senior Chinese Communist Party official working on Hong Kong affairs.
She’s still a threat. The Trump administration should re-sanction Qiu Hong now. A lapsed technicality should never be mistaken for a clean record.
https://t.co/oWltxsClVH
Yang Jianping 杨建平 spent his career inside the #HongKong Liaison Office, rising to deputy director by 2012. In 2021, the United States Treasury sanctioned him for the office's role in dismantling Hong Kong's autonomy. This month, he came off the list, not because Treasury found he'd done nothing wrong, but because the national emergency declared under Executive Order 13936 expired.
The record the sanctions were built on hasn’t changed. The Trump administration should re-sanction Yang Jianping now. A lapsed technicality should never be mistaken for a clean record.
https://t.co/oWltxsBO69
Dong Jingwei 董经纬 runs #HongKong's national security apparatus. In 2025, the United States sanctioned him for it. This month, he quietly came off the list. Not because he changed but because of a technicality. He's still the mainland official heading the Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong.
Nothing about the threat he poses has changed. The Trump administration should re-sanction Dong Jingwei now. A lapsed technicality should never be mistaken for a clean record.
Original Sanction: https://t.co/ieYZCHh9Bq
Sanction Removal: https://t.co/oWltxsClVH
Stephen Lo 盧偉聰 led #HongKong's police force through the 2019 crackdown. In 2020, the United States sanctioned him for it. This month, he quietly came off the list. Not because he changed but because of a technicality. Many protesters were arrested under his command.
Nothing about the record he left behind has changed. The Trump administration should re-sanction Stephen Lo now. A lapsed technicality should never be mistaken for a clean record.
https://t.co/oWltxsBO69
As I said this past weekend, after claiming that China stole the 2020 US election, weak phony conman Trump will take no action against China and won’t even bring it up with Xi.
Q: Are you planning on putting any pressure or consequences on China for what you announced about them meddling in the 2020?
Trump: It took place a long time ago. I think China is maybe a little bit different today than it was then, but look, they, they do things and we do things to them. I'll be honest, we do things for them too.
#DonaldTrump has announced a 50% tariff on many Canadian goods. 💰
In our survey earlier this year, 77% of people across 36 countries disapproved of the way Trump was handling #tariffs.