The vast majority of what people are calling for is an end to COVID restrictions and end to lockdowns. In Shanghai over the weekend, they directly called for President Xi Jinping to step down. This is in China incredibly rare to hear this kind of thing in public. And again, the police response that night was quite muted.
Protests have become as bold as they are widespread—mostly against the country’s unsustainable zero-covid policies, but increasingly against the ruling regime itself. California’s wildfires have been growing more intense, and a new analysis shows just how much those blazes undo the good work of the state’s green policies. And a look at the evolution of the Great British Lad.
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