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Hazmat suit-clad riot police confront China COVID-19 protesters

Clashes reported in locked-down southern city of Guangzhou amid the biggest wave of civil unrest since 1989.

Al Jazeera

Yes, the Chinese Protests Are About Politics and Freedom. But They Are Also About What Covid Might Do if It Is Let Loose Now

The zero-Covid policy has become an effective platform for young people to demand greater political freedom.

The News Lens

Factbox: A chronology of dissent in China in recent decades

Over the past week, thousands of Chinese in numerous cities have protested against China's COVID-19 lockdown policies, in one of the biggest acts of public defiance seen since President Xi Jinping came to power in 2012.

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Hong Kong official warns lockdown protests hurt security

Hong Kong’s security minister has warned that the city’s protests against China’s anti-virus restrictions are a “rudiment of another color revolution” and urged residents not to participate in activities that might hurt national security

The Independent UK

AP News Digest 3:25 am

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The Independent UK

Fresh clashes in south China as authorities warn of 'crackdown'

BEIJING: Fresh clashes have broken out between police and protesters in a southern Chinese city, part of a wave of Covid lockdown-sparked demonstrations across the country that have morphed into demands for political freedoms.

Bangkok Post

China vows 'crackdown on hostile forces' after wave of anti-lockdown protests

Chinese police have flooded streets carrying out random ID checks, checking phones for images and banned materials in a crackdown following anti-lockdown protests

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China vows crackdown on 'hostile forces' as public tests Xi

China's ruling Communist Party has vowed to “resolutely crack down on infiltration and sabotage activities by hostile forces."

The Independent UK

China vows to crack down on ‘hostile forces’ as police deter protests

BEIJING: China’s top law enforcement body pledged to crack down on “hostile forces” and their “sabotage,” comments that appeared intended as a warning to protesters angry about Covid-19 policies and to provide justification for government efforts to suppress dissent.

The Times of India

Analysis: Republicans cry weakness, others see sense in Biden's China protest response

The administration of President Joe Biden has drawn Republican fire for its cautious response to nationwide protests in China against COVID-19 lockdowns, with some lawmakers accusing it of failing to seize a historic moment.

Reuters

China COVID protests die down, but policy resentment remains

Beijing flooded streets with police and security personnel while tweaking COVID response after rare nationwide protests.

Al Jazeera

Canada's Trudeau says people in China should be allowed to protest

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday that everyone in China should be allowed to protest and express themselves, and that Canadians were closely watching the protests against the country's zero-COVID policy.

Reuters

Harvard students show solidarity with Chinese protesters

Dozens of people gathered at Harvard University to support Chinese protesters who have called for the country’s leader to step down amid severe anti-virus restrictions in the biggest demonstrations against the government in Beijing in decades

The Independent UK

‘This feels so much like Hong Kong’: territory’s solidarity with Chinese uprising

Veterans of Hong Kong’s 2019 protests see echoes in mainland’s anti-Covid anger, but fear a similar outcome

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The Conversation

Chinese protests are about more than COVID – student discontent has fuelled the biggest movement since Tiananmen Square

Protests have erupted across China, initially in response to the deaths of ten people in a fire in an apartment block in Xinjiang in the country’s northwest. The demonstrations represent the biggest expression of public unrest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement was savagely crushed.

ABC News

China COVID-19 policy protesters reveal why they took to the streets and what they saw

Hundreds of mostly young Chinese people have risked imprisonment by taking part in widespread demonstrations against the government's strict COVID-19 policies and suppression of civil liberties. The ABC spoke to some of them about what they saw and why they took part.

Reason

Biden's Support for COVID Protests Hinges on What Country They're in

The president has urged the Chinese government to respect the rights of anti-lockdown demonstrators. He actively encouraged the Canadian government to end the trucker protests.

The Guardian - UK

致中国大陆的读者：跟我们分享您对反清零政策抗议的看法

我们想跟在中国大陆生活的人了解一下他们对抗争的看法及在中国大陆防疫措施下的的日常生活 We would like to speak to people in China about their views on the protests and what daily life is like with Covid restrictions

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Los Angeles Times

White House watches cautiously as protests over COVID restrictions roil China

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is treading lightly in response to demonstrations in China by citizens angry over the country’s harsh COVID-19 restrictions, drawing criticism from Republicans and democracy advocates who say the White House should act more forcefully.

Bangkok Post

UK summons China envoy after arrest of BBC journalist

Britain on Tuesday summoned the Chinese ambassador in London for a rebuke after the arrest and alleged assault of a BBC journalist covering Covid protests.

Evening Standard

The Standard View: The Chinese Communist Party can try to deny reality at home, but the world bears witness to its repression

Following the most significant civil unrest in China since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, and the arrest and beating of a BBC journalist by police, a diplomatic row has broken out between Beijing and London.

Wales Online

Chinese ambassador summoned to Foreign Office over arrest of BBC journalist

A BBC journalist was beaten and kicked while filming protests against Chinese government's coronavirus measures in Shanghai.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Britain Summons China’s Ambassador over Treatment of BBC Journalist

Britain summoned China's ambassador on Tuesday to raise the treatment of a British journalist whose employer, the BBC, said had been assaulted by Chinese police while he was covering a protest in Shanghai. The incident has deepened long-running diplomatic tension between Britain and China over a range of issues including…

Evening Standard

Chinese Covid protests are widening the cracks in the authoritarian edifice

Starting out as a journalist, I learned my reporting trade on the foreign desk at The Times, where we burgeoning newshounds scrapped for the chance to assist on the big stories. On one June day in the summer of 1989, though, there were more than enough stories to go round.…

The National (Scotland)

Chinese ambassador summoned to Foreign Office after arrest of BBC journalist

THE Chinese ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Office amid an escalating diplomatic row following the arrest of a BBC journalist in the…

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