Joseph R. Biden Archives

Memorandum on the Deferred Enforced Departure for Certain Hong Kong Residents

August 5, 2021 - The United States supports the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the residents of Hong Kong. Recognizing the significant erosion of those rights and freedoms in Hong Kong by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), I am directing the deferral of removal of certain Hong Kong residents who are present in ...

By U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong | 6 August, 2021 | Topics: Exclude, News, President of the United States | Tags: Joseph R. Biden

Statement by President Joe Biden on Hong Kong’s Apple Daily

June 24, 2021 - It is a sad day for media freedom in Hong Kong and around the world. Intensifying repression by Beijing has reached such a level that Apple Daily, a much-needed bastion of independent journalism in Hong Kong, has now ceased publishing.

By U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong | 25 June, 2021 | Topics: News, President of the United States, Speeches | Tags: Joseph R. Biden

Remarks by President Biden in Press Conference (Hong Kong Excerpts)

March 25, 2021 - And he understood that. I made it clear that no American President — at least one did — but no American President ever back down from speaking out of what’s happening to the Uighurs, what’s happening in Hong Kong, what’s happening in-country.

By U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong | 26 March, 2021 | Topics: News, President of the United States, Speeches | Tags: Joseph R. Biden

Readout of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Call with President Xi Jinping of China

February 10, 2021 - President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke today with President Xi Jinping of China.

By U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong | 11 February, 2021 | Topics: News, President of the United States | Tags: Joseph R. Biden

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