Protests in China against the world's toughest COVID-19 restrictions are dying down because they have had an effect, a top U.S. diplomat said on Friday, as Beijing further eased testing and quarantine rules.
in more than 20 cities in recent days in a show of civil disobedience unprecedented in mainland China since President Xi Jinping took power in 2012.
"They are allowing people to quarantine in their homes as opposed to quarantine in fever hospitals. They say they are going to open step by step in this," Sherman said of Beijing's response. Sherman's comments came after two days of talks with European External Action Service Secretary General Stefano Sannino on China and Indo-Pacific issues, in which the two expressed concerns about China's "provocations" toward self-governed Taiwan.
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