The Political Week in Photos

Hong Kong took center stage in the worsening dispute between the U.S. and China after Beijing moved to tighten its grip on the former British colony, defying a threat by U.S. President Trump to impose sanctions on the Chinese authorities.

Amid mounting criticism of his handling of the coronavirus that has claimed more than 100,000 American lives, Trump also attacked social media companies after Twitter slapped fact-check links on a pair of his tweets.