The White House and U.S. State Department expressed disagreement with China's zero-COVID policy and support for the ongoing protests across the country.
"We’ve said that zero-COVID is not a policy we're pursuing here," a White House National Security Council spokesperson told Fox News Digital Monday. "And as we’ve said, we think it’s going to be very difficult for the People’s Republic of China to be able to contain this virus through their zero-COVID strategy."
The comments come as massive protests have raged across China in recent days, spreading to 20 provinces and the cities of Beijing and Shanghai, with some calling on President Biden to say more in support of the protesters.
Lisa Daftari, a foreign policy commentator for Foreign Desk News, drew parallels to the China protests and those still going on in Iran, arguing that people were standing up against corrupt political systems such as communism and theocracy.
"Media got both wrong," Daftari said on Twitter Monday. "Biden admin silent."
The protests originated after a deadly apartment building fire last week in the Xinjiang regional capital of Urumqi, which resulted in the deaths of 10 people. As a result of lockdown measures in the city that have been in place for over 100 days, the city's fire department was delayed in arriving on the scene.
