At a news conference on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said, "The United States is the only country in the world that has issued a Muslim ban." Her remarks were in response to a reporter's question on comments made by Admiral Philip Davidson of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. In a speech on December 7, he said that China's "authoritarian model has resulted in the suffering of its own people from the Uygurs in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the people of Hong Kong."