Source: South China Morning PostThe day after his name appeared on a Chinese government sanctions list in March, the German politician Michael Gahler was reached by phone at his Brussels office, sounding philosophical and not at all bitter.The two-decade veteran of the European Parliament was one of dozens of elected officials punished by Beijing for the European Union’s sanctioning of four low-ranking Chinese officials over human rights abuses in Xinjiang, probably for his chairmanship of a parliamentary “friendship group”…Read More