; (8) to ensure that pursuing bilateral relationships with foreign governments, particularly those with restrictive press and information environments, is based on the principles of reciprocity across many sectors of the bilateral relationship, including economic, diplomatic, educational, religious, and in the free flow of news and information; and (9) to clearly differentiate, in official statements, media communications, and messaging, between the citizens of a country and the government of the country, for example, the people and culture of China on the one hand and the Government of the People’s Republic of China and the Communist Party of China on the other. 4. Protection of foreign journalists and media personnel globally (a) Statement of policy It is the policy of the United States to consider foreign government officials responsible for, complicit in, or having directly or indirectly engaged in serious restrictions of the internationally-recognized right to the freedom of expression, among these arbitrary detention, imprisonment, enforced disappearance, torture, fines, extrajudicial killing, and other substantial threats to the life and liberty of a person, as having committed— (1) gross violations of internationally recognized human rights for purposes of imposing sanctions with respect to such officials under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2656 note); and (2) gross violations of human rights for purposes of imposing sanctions with respect to such officials under section 7031(c) of division F of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 ( Public Law 116–6 ; 133 Stat. 319