Nov 29, 2022
Chinese authorities are clashing with thousands of protesters all over the country in an unprecedented wave of protests over Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown policies and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tyranny. The COVID-19 policy, known as "Zero-COVID," aims to isolate every person suspected of being infected. While this may have kept China's COVID-19 case numbers relatively lower compared to those of other major countries, it has led to a lot more strife as the public's acceptance of these protocols disappears following numerous lockdowns. (Related: G20 declares support for global digital COVID-19 vaccine passport following meeting between Biden and Xi.) The ongoing protests began in Urumqi, the capital of the northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, following a fire in an apartment building that killed 10 people, including a three-year-old child. Protests in the city broke out after people attributed the deaths to pandemic controls preven