The Biden administration said it supported Chinese people’s rights to peacefully protest the communist regime’s COVID policies after widespread unrest rocked the country over the weekend.
“People should be allowed … the right to assemble and to peacefully protest policies or laws or dictates … that they take issue with,” White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters at a press briefing on Nov. 28. “The White House supports the right of peaceful protest.”
He stopped short of directly backing protesters’ calls for greater freedoms in China.
When asked what President Joe Biden’s reaction was to demonstrators’ demands “to regain personal freedoms” and for Chinese leader Xi Jinping to “step down,” Kirby replied, “The president’s not going to speak for protesters.”…