China tightens security after rare protests against COVID curbs

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Despite a weekend of protests against restrictive COVID curbs across China, and abroad, lockdowns are set to continue with the country hitting another record high of confirmed cases

From the streets of several Chinese cities to dozens of university campuses, protesters made a show of civil disobedience unprecedented since leader Xi Jinping assumed power a decade ago. During his tenure, Xi has overseen the quashing of dissent and expansion of a high-tech social surveillance system that has made protest more difficult, and riskier.

There was no sign of new protests on Monday in Beijing or Shanghai, but dozens of police were in the areas where the demonstrations took place. Asked about widespread anger over China's zero-COVID policy, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters: "What you mentioned does not reflect what actually happened.

The zero-COVID policy has kept China's official death toll in the thousands, against more than a million in the United States, but has come at the cost of confining many millions to long spells at home, bringing extensive disruption and damage to the world's second-largest economy.

 

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And it is a wise decision of the Chinese authorities not to abandon its policy of Zero-Covid in spite of the concerted attempts by the western governments and the corrupt corporate media to demonize it and call for its lifting

It’s China … they could 3-D print 10,000 guns without the government knowing at any moment…China zerocovid

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