McGovern is a co-sponsor of a bill calling for stronger US support for Tibet.
China sanctioned a US lawmaker on Wednesday for “frequently interfering” in China’s domestic affairs.
The sanctions against representative Jim McGovern include freezing his assets and properties in China, prohibiting any organisation or individual in China from conducting transactions or working with him, and denying him and his family a visa to enter the country, according to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It is one of several rounds of sanctions against US lawmakers and companies that China has announced as relations have soured between Beijing and Washington.
