The Biden administration offered support on Monday for peaceful protesters in China who spilled into the streets over the weekend to demonstrate against Beijing’s “zero COVID” strategy for containing the deadly pandemic.
. The two leaders agreed that senior aides would continue talks on climate change, debt relief and other issues. "There has been no change in our desire to continue to see these channels of communication stay open," Kirby told reporters."And we were heartened coming away from the G-20 that both leaders were able to agree on getting some of these working-level discussions back open.
Civil disobedience has included street protests, candlelight vigils and more active, violent demonstrations in which protesters have clashed with police. There have been chants calling for democracy and press freedom. The blank pieces of paper symbolize restrictions on political speech. They have also been used in Russia, where dissenting speech is also criminalized, and where some have sought to protest President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. It is not uncommon for small protests to take place in China.
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