China Protests

Have protests pushed China to step away from its zero-COVID policy?

After following the strictest zero-COVID policy since the outbreak of the virus, China has signalled a shift, with some cities such as Guangzhou, Beijing and Chongqing lifting curbs. This comes after the country witnessed the most widespread and unprecedented demonstrations over the last few days

Watch: Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng, his wife kept under house arrest by men in hazmat suits

In a twitter post, several men in hazmat suits were seen stopping Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng, and his wife Xu Yan when they tried to go downstairs to throw out garbage. Both were later put under house arrest

China: Demonstrators attack police in Guangzhou as protests against Covid-19 lockdown escalate

The violence in Guangzhou was a marked escalation from similar protests in Shanghai, Beijing and other Chinese cities over the weekend. The current wave of country wide protests in biggest wave of civil disobedience in China since Xi Jinping started his reign as president a decade ago

As protests rage, is China planning to relax its zero-COVID policy?

The anti-zero COVID protests in several Chinese cities, including Shanghai and Beijing, have called for Xi Jinping to step down. As international concerns mount, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said that China has been adjusting its strategy based on the changing circumstances

Top China security body calls for 'crackdown' on 'hostile forces' after protests

The stark warning came after security services were out in force across China following demonstrations not seen in decades, as anger over unrelenting lockdowns fuelled deep-rooted frustration with the political system

WATCH how Big Brother in China is peeking into mobiles for anti-Xi Jinping posts

Videos are going viral where Chinese police are seen checking mobile phones of commuters travelling in subway in Shanghai

Great Wall of Porn: How China is using sex bots to quell the COVID protests on social media

A search for the names of the Chinese cities where mass, unprecedented protests are taking place over the strict zero-COVID policy saw users being flooded with lewd posts. Analysts point out that it’s a tried-and-tested method used by the authorities to crush dissent

China COVID protests: Why demonstrators are holding up papers with a physics equation

Students at Beijing’s elite Tsinghua University reportedly expressed dissent against the Chinese government’s stringent zero-COVID policy using the Friedmann equations. Some believe the formulas are a play on the word 'free man', as the demand for freedom grows

Deaths of children, bus accident and more: The many horrors of China’s zero-COVID policy

Many cases have been seen in China recently where people were denied essential medical care or there was a delay in treatments because of strict COVID-19 lockdowns. Now, the citizens finally have had enough

Xi Jinping, step down: Chinese President faces public wrath over draconian 'zero-Covid' policy

People took to the streets across China to call for an end to lockdowns and for greater political freedoms, in a wave of widespread protest not seen since pro-democracy rallies in 1989