On Thursday, the Chinese Embassy in Antigua and Barbuda tweeted and then deleted a racially charged criticism of western officials who gathered in support of a Canadian national who faces the death penalty in China.
President Joe Biden on Aug. 5 said he is offering a “safe haven” to Hongkongers in the United States that would allow thousands to extend their stay amid Beijing’s “significant erosion” of their freedoms back home.
Biden has made it clear that he will not "speak out against" China's abuse of the Uighur ethnic minority in China, even though a bipartisan commission of the United States Congress stated that China has possibly committed “genocide” in its treatment of Uighurs and other minority Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang.