Recently, there have been protests in China over the COVID-19 lockdowns. According to https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/business/china-protests-censorship-video.html, “Workers and residents resisting a Covid lockdown in an industrial district tore down barricades and threw bottles at riot police, as a top official in Beijing was ordering a crackdown on “sabotage activities by hostile forces.””

A recent interview by a sophomore said, “I support that they are finally resisting but it is really dangerous to do that. I think that the Chinese government needs to chill out because the measures are really extreme.

Protests to this scale in China is not common. A memorable one is known as the Tibetan Uprising in 1989 according to https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48445934. The reason for the recent protests is due to the “zero covid policy” according to https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/28/protests-against-covid-controls-erupt-across-china.html.

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