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A bipartisan group of more than 40 US senators warned China on Thursday against any violent crackdown on protests there, saying it would do “extraordinary damage” to the US-China relationship.
The 42 senators, led by Democrats Dan Sullivan and Jeff Merkley and Republicans Mitch McConnell and Todd Young, said in a letter to China’s Washington ambassador Qin Gang that they were following the protests in China very carefully.
“We are also closely watching the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) reaction to them,” the senators’ letter said, noting Beijing’s violent crackdown on student protesters in 1989 that they said killed hundreds, if not thousands of people.
