HONG KONG (Reuters) -China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday said it was sanctioning Japanese lawmaker Seki Hei, also known by his Chinese name Shi Ping, a China-born naturalized Japanese citizen who has been a vocal critic of the Chinese Communist Party.

In a statement, the ministry said that Shi Ping “has long spread fallacies on issues such as Taiwan, the Diaoyu Islands, history, Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong.”

It said that Shi had violated the China-Japan joint statement inked in 1972, “seriously interfered in China’s internal affairs” and damaged China’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

China will from Monday freeze any property of Shi’s in the country and prohibit any Chinese organizations and individuals from conducting related transactions, cooperation and other a

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