Earlier on Saturday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China said in a news release it has banned Chong from entering the country and prohibited any Chinese citizen from doing business with him. The sanctions also targeted the federal subcommittee on which Chong sits, which is studying the situation of the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China's Xinjiang region.
Chong, the Tories' foreign affairs critic, said Saturday he has a duty to call out China's "genocide" of Uyghur Muslims. "We who live freely in democracies under the rule of law must speak for the voiceless," Chong said on Twitter.
"If that means China sanctions me, I'll wear it as a badge of honour."
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