Coverage dated November 25, 2022 to December 1, 2022
China's cities are running out of cash to pay huge Covid lockdown bills
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By Laura He, CNN Business Protests this week across China show just how unpopular Beijing’s zero-Covid policy has become. Now, even as the country signals it may loosen pandemic controls, it faces another challenge: Local governments charged with conducting mass testing and enforcing quarantine are …
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At the heart of China's protests against zero-Covid, young people cry for freedom
Headline from Local News 8 ·
Crowds Clash With Police In China As Beijing Cracks Down On Covid Protests
Headline from Forbes ·
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China's cities are running out of cash to pay huge Covid lockdown bills
China's zero-COVID policy has caused significant backlash following a number of incidents that could have been avoided if not for draconian lockdown policies.
China is easing some of its coronavirus restrictions in the face of astonishing protests against President Xi Jinping, but the communist government showed no signs of abandoning its zero-COVID policy and so-called nuisance accounts tried to bury news about the protests online.
Chinese authorities responded Monday to a weekend of unprecedented protests against the regime for its excessive COVID-19 restrictions by loosening its "zero COVID" strategy.
Public protests in China related to the government's COVID-19 restrictions have hit the news worldwide over the weekend, following a fatal apartment fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang last week which killed ten people.
Residents held late-night demonstrations against draconian "zero-COVID" lockdown measures after 10 people were killed in an apartment fire. Protests in China are extremely rare.
From Shanghai to Beijing, protests have erupted across China in a rare show of dissent against the ruling Communist Party sparked by anger over the country's increasingly costly zero-COVID policy.
By Casey Hall and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Police on Monday stopped and searched people at the sites of weekend protests in Shanghai and Beijing, after crowds there and in other Chinese cities demonstrated against stringent COVID-19 measures disrupting lives three years into t…
China security forces detained people Monday at the scene of a rare demonstration as authorities worked to extinguish protests that flared across the country calling for political freedoms and an end…
By Nectar Gan and Selina Wang and CNN’s Beijing bureau For the first time in decades, thousands of people have defied Chinese authorities to protest at universities and on the streets of major cities, demanding to be freed not only from incessant Covid tests and lockdowns, but strict censorship and …
In China, protests have erupted across the country in response to COVID-19 restrictions. As the protests spread, demonstrators are calling for all kinds of freedoms in a rare show of national unity.
A rare wave of protests has taken place across many Chinese provinces and cities. With covid cases nationwide on the rise, local governments are taking extreme measures, with deadly consequences.
China is one of the only countries in the world still pushing to eliminate Covid-19, an approach that relies on strict lockdowns and widespread testing and has sparked widespread protests across the country.
While a lot of attention has been given to the unprecedented protests in China about the "dynamic zero COVID" policy, not much has been written about the wider political context, and particularly the young people leading the protests.
