The president of the United States, Joe Biden, is “informed of what is happening” in China and “closely follows” the demonstrations against health restrictions and in favor of more freedoms, the White House said on Monday.
“The White House supports the right to peaceful protest,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, adding that “the protesters speak for themselves.”
John Kirby added that “nothing” has changed in the US willingness to “keep communication channels open” with the Chinese authorities, after the meeting between Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the summit. of the G20 in Indonesia.
The two heads of state, during the meeting, had expressed their willingness to relaunch discussions in some areas of cooperation.
“We still intend to continue these discussions,” the spokesperson said.
For his part, a spokesman for the US State Department had referred to the fact that “everyone has the right to peaceful protests”, including China.
According to the same source, the United States considers vaccination, testing and treatment to be more effective than “hard restrictions.”
“We think it will be very difficult for China to contain the virus with its zero Covid strategy. It will be very difficult to maintain the confinements and the Covid zero ”, he concluded.
Today, the Chinese authorities tried to contain a movement of struggle of historic proportions against the sanitary restrictions and for more freedoms.
On Sunday, crowds of protesters, responding to calls on social media, took to the streets of Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan, taking police by surprise.
Due to the extension of the territory, the mobilization seems to be the most important since the demonstrations in favor of democracy in 1989, which were harshly repressed.
Source: TSF
