China Must Let ‘Extraordinary’ Protests Continue, US Envoy to Beijing Says
- Nicholas Burns calls days of protests ‘extraordinary’
- Too early to say if protests will lead to change, Burns says
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China shouldn’t interfere with “extraordinary” protests against strict Covid curbs that broke out across the country, the US envoy to Beijing said Tuesday in the most detailed comments about the demonstrations by a senior US official so far.
“We believe that Chinese people have a right to protest peacefully, they have a right to make their views known,” US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns told the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “That’s a fundamental right around the world -- it should be -- and that right should not be hindered with, and it shouldn’t be interfered with.”