Protests began in a remote area of the country, known as Xinjiang. They started because of a fire in a residential building there that ended up killing 10 people. The region has been under COVID lockdown for more than 100 days. Protests have erupted in Beijing and Shanghai, in Wuhan, in Guangzhou.
The protests in China might force the government to back down from its extreme Covid restrictions and ramp up its extreme surveillance programs. The Wall Street Journal’s Josh Chin explains.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Sean Rameswaram who also hosted.
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