President-elect Joe Biden may fill key embassy posts with Hollywood megadonors whose ties to the Chinese Communist Party have prompted federal investigations. 
Chinese authorities arrested a pro-democracy activist on Tuesday while he attempted to seek asylum at the American consulate in Hong Kong.
The New York Times is being criticized for publishing a lengthy op-ed defending the Chinese government's authoritarian crackdown in Hong Kong. Under the headline, "Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not," the Times granted valuable journalistic space to Chinese politician Regina Ip to denounce pro-democracy protesters for "stirring up chaos and disaffection toward our motherland," and defending government-led efforts to postpone elections.
A Thursday New York Times op-ed defended the Chinese Communist Party's hostile takeover of Hong Kong. 
A new travel advisory from the State Department upgraded the warning for American citizens traveling to China and Hong Kong, warning of "arbitrary detention" from the Chinese government.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Wednesday that Washington will move to suspend three bilateral agreements with Hong Kong, most notably impacting extradition and tax exemptions.
Taylor Lorenz, the New York Times‘s resident expert on teen culture, recently highlighted an “excellent piece” by former Times editorial board member Sarah Jeong. The piece, published in The Verge, criticized the Trump administration’s efforts to ban TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media app popular with sexy teens who like to dance.
Former Vermont governor and Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean endorsed the Chinese government's sanctions against Republican senators and called for their expulsion from the United States.
The European Union will sanction China for its imposition of a harsh national security law on Hong Kong, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. 
The United Kingdom has announced its intention to offer a special pathway to citizenship for escaping Hong Kongers, effective in January, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. 