The White House has announced that the US president is “closely” following demonstrations in China, a stance that came after the US State Department affirmed the Chinese people’s right to demonstrate and questioned the effectiveness of Beijing’s “zero Covid” policy. US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters the White House supports the right to demonstrate peacefully, stressing that Biden is “closely following developments, and so are we.” speaking for protesters around the world, they speak for themselves. The spokesman stressed that “there is nothing (change) in our desire to keep channels of communication open” with the Chinese authorities in a situation that arose shortly after the summit that Biden held with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Indonesia on the sidelines. G20 summit.