What is happening? In an extraordinary wave of civil disobedience, dozens of protests broke out across Chinese cities over the weekend as frustrations with the government’s stringent zeroCovid policies boiled over.
Groups of people numbering from single digits to about 1,000 have gathered for candlelit vigils and peaceful street protests. In some places, such as Wuhan, they have pushed over pandemic barriers, and in Shanghai, clashed with police. Holding candles, phone lights, and blank pieces of paper, demonstrators have called for the end of lockdowns and frequent mass testing. Other protests have heard demands for democracy and press freedom, and an end to online censorship.
How did we get here? Frustrations with the zero-Covid policy have been rumbling for a while. As the rest of the world returns to something resembling normal life, China’s population is still being subjected to sudden harsh lockdowns of areas ranging from individual shops to entire counties, often over just a few cases.
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