The Chi­nese gov­ern­ment on Mon­day side­stepped ques­tions on when it would con­grat­u­late Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent-elect Joe Biden on his elec­tion vic­to­ry, with a For­eign Min­istry spokesman say­ing only that Chi­na would act in “accor­dance with inter­na­tion­al practice.”