内容摘要：Taliban government to follow Pakistan’s move to designate ambassador to Kabul as tensions between the two nations ease.

Taliban government to follow Pakistan’s move to designate ambassador to Kabul as tensions between the two nations ease.

Rubio also did not specify what would constitute “connections” to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is the only major political group in China, a one-party country. The party has about 100 million card-carrying members in a country of about 400 million families, so on average, one in every four Chinese citizens has an immediate relative in the CCP.The US State Department website also released a press statement, titled “New Visa Policies Put America First, Not China”.

In this statement, Rubio added: “We will also revise visa criteria to enhance scrutiny of all future visa applications from the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong.”This move comes a day after Rubio circulated a memo saying that the US had ordered its foreign embassies tovisa interviews for all foreign students while the State Department plans to expand the vetting of applicants’ social media.

How has China responded?Beijing has condemned the Trump administration’s move, deeming it “political and discriminatory”.

“The US has unreasonably cancelled Chinese students’ visas under the pretext of ideology and national rights,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Thursday. “China firmly opposes this and has lodged representations with the US.”

Mao added that the move by the US government had “seriously damaged” the rights of Chinese students and hurt the normal cultural exchange between Washington and Beijing.Mercedes said it had taken measures to ensure control over the sale of its vehicles.

“We have installed intensive awareness and control measures in our global dealer network to minimise the risk of potential sanctions circumvention,” a Mercedes-Benz spokesperson told Al Jazeera, explaining that such measures included audits of authorised partners.A number of companies, including German firms Tchibo and Henkel, told Al Jazeera that they have limited means to prevent parallel imports.

Coca-Cola said its ability to address the issue is “limited by regulatory factors linked primarily to free trade within the Eurasian Economic Union”, an integrated single market made up of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.Finnish food company Fazer, which owns Geisha chocolate, reiterated that it had permanently left Russia.