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These are the biggest protests in China since Tiananmen Square over 30 years ago. They spread all around the country, including to college campuses. It really is by far the most widespread unified show of defiance that the Communist Party has seen. Most surprising of all, the protests might prove to be effective and force the Chinese government to back down.

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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