On the evening of September 24 local time, outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., protesters were attacked by Chinese personnel. After local police arrived, the Chinese personnel retreated back into the embassy.
On September 12, Li Qing was arrested by Washington police while protesting outside the residence of Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Xie Feng, and was accused of assaulting police; as relayed by Wei Libin (@baron_weili), Li Qing said he did not touch any police officer and that the police and the embassy colluded to frame him — this claim has not been verified.
In a lengthy CNN report, from autumn 2024 to spring 2025, a quadcopter drone suspected of being linked to the Chinese Communist Party repeatedly intruded into restricted airspace over the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The U.S. side employed electronic warfare means to force it to land, detained multiple Chinese citizens in a nearby RV as well as one Chinese woman who had remained in a national park (the latter was later released). The FBI suspects these individuals were connected to Chinese intelligence agencies, and the Chinese embassy denied the allegations.
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Alvaro Smith stated while attending the Army Day event at the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. that current U.S.-China military relations are at their most stable period in recent years.
According to a 2019 report by the Danish newspaper Copenhagen Times, the Chinese embassy forcibly demanded that the Danish government deploy a Huawei 5G system in the Faroe Islands, threatening to abolish the China-Denmark free trade agreement.