Shanghai hit by Covid protests as anger spreads across China

Shanghai hit by Covid protests as anger spreads across China

• Hundreds of demonstrators and police clashed in Shanghai on Sunday night as protests over China’s stringent Covid restrictions flared for a third day and spread to several cities in the wake of a deadly fire in the country’s far west.
• The wave of civil disobedience is unprecedented in mainland China since President Xi Jinping assumed power a decade ago, as frustration mounts over his signature zero-Covid policy nearly three years into the pandemic.
• The Covid measures are also exacting a heavy toll on the world’s second-largest economy.

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