Can China’s Zero-COVID Protests Keep Momentum
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Thousands of people in cities across China are fed up with the government’s strict “zero-COVID” policies, and they’re taking big risks to voice their discontent on streets and college campuses. While most of the world is learning to live with coronavirus, China continues to mandate lockdowns, limit freedom of movement and close businesses in places where new cases appear. A recent rise in COVID infections across the country means more people have been subject to restrictions. Their frustration has resulted in the largest outpouring of public protest China has seen in decades. Some protesters have gone as far to call for President Xi Jinping to step down, in a rare direct challenge to his leadership. Coordinated displays of public disobedience are uncommon in China and are a sign of the pressure many people are under due to repeated lockdowns and economic disruptions, in the video published on Nov. 29, 2022, by DW News, as “China: Can “zero-COVID” protests keep momentum?| DW News“, below:
Chinese authorities appear to be clamping down on protests, with a strong police presence in the capital of Beijing this week. There have been extraordinary scenes across the country over the past few days, with a series of apparently spontaneous demonstrations against COVID lockdowns. Peter McCutcheon reports, in the video published on Nov. 29, 2022, by ABC News (Australia), as “Protests erupt across China over COVID restrictions | 7.30“, below:
Late on Saturday night, crowds gathered in Shanghai, China’s largest city and financial capital, on Urumqi Road—named after the city in Xinjiang—to mourn the victims of the fire. Videos on social media showed protesters calling for an end to lockdowns and mass testing. Some raised slogans against Mr. Xi and the ruling Communist Party. Several hundred people gathered in Beijing on Sunday night for a rare protest. Some laid out candles to mourn those in Urumqi, while others chanted, “We don’t want COVID tests, we want freedom!” A large police presence was deployed around the protest that took place near the Liangma river in the heart of the capital, in the video published on Nov. 28, 2022, by CNN-News 18, as “China News LIVE | China COVID Protests | China News Today | Anti-COVID Policy | English News LIVE“, below:
Max Baucus, the former U.S. ambassador to China, joins to discuss the country’s crackdown on COVID-19 protests and how President Xi Jinping plans to respond to demands from demonstrators, in the video published on Nov. 29, 2022, by ABC News, as “Former US Ambassador: Xi has a ‘huge problem’ on COVID protests, lockdowns | ABCNL“, below:
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria discusses protests across China challenging the country’s zero-Covid policy, in the video published on Nov. 27, 2022, by CNN, as “Zakaaria explains what is ‘unprecedented’ about China’s Covid-19 protests“, below:
Widespread protests in China are calling for an end to Xi Jinping’s “zero COVID” policy, which has battered China’s economy and locked hundreds of millions of people in their homes. Ed O’Keefe has the latest, in the video published on Nov. 29, 2022, by CBS News, as “Protests in China call for end to Xi Jinping’s “zero COVID” policy“, below:
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