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The White House REFUSES to condemn China's crackdown on COVID protesters chanting 'freedom' - as US embassy urges Americans to keep a TWO-WEEK supply of medications, water and food at home because of threats of strict lockdowns
2022-11-29
Rolled over from a late SKIDPOST from yesterday
[MAIL] The White House steered away from speaking out against China's response to protesters on Monday, saying it supported anyone's right to peacefully protest - but falling far short of offering solidarity with demonstrators demanding the removal of President Xi Jinping.

Earlier Chinese police tightened security at the sites of weekend protests in Shanghai and Beijing.

Crowds had gathered in anger over China's zero-Covid policies, and in some cases demanded the removal of Xi.

'We want freedom,' has become their rallying cry.

While President Joe Biden has recently spoken up enthusiastically in favor of protests in Iran, this time officials said he had no plan to comment on China.

'The president's not gonna speak for protesters around the world,' said White House National Security Council official John Kirby when asked about Biden's response to protesters freedom chants.

'They're speaking for themselves ...

'What we are doing is making it clear that we support the right of peaceful protest.'
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  China to US Embassy: everyone is required to have 5 consecutive negative Covid anal swabs or leave country.

While President Joe Biden has recently spoken up enthusiastically in favor of protests in Iran

Has he?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-11-29 11:14  

#6  Tanks[[?] on the streets spark fears of new Tiananmen Square as Chinese Communists flood cities with police to end unprecedented protests sparked by disastrous zero-Covid policy
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-11-29 10:50  

#5  They are NEOCONs without the freedom slogans. Only the underlying corruption and hypocrisy remain.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-11-29 10:09  

#4  What China is doing has nothing to do with COVID. COVID is just the cover for more tweaking of the totalitarian screws.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-11-29 08:04  

#3  Don't want to give your own people any ideas?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-11-29 07:45  

#2  Xi's increasingly desperate bid to suppress China's uprising: Censors try (but fail) to scrub images of blank sheets of paper being held up by protesters from the internet as the anti-regime ‘A4 revolution’ continues across the country
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-11-29 04:16  

#1  No "condemnation" from fellow travelers, only admiration.

Something to watch in the coming weeks and months.

Posted by: Besoeker   2022-11-29 00:35  

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